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VENICE, ITALY – SEPTEMBER 07: Australian actor Hugh Jackman attends “The Son” red carpet at the 79th Venice International Film Festival on September 07, 2022 in Venice, Italy. (Photo by Stefania D’Alessandro\/WireImage)<\/p>\n
Hugh Jackman thinks Musicals are the \u201chardest things to pull off.\u201d The multiple award-winning actor, who has starred in an impressive list of musicals, including Les Mis\u00e9rables, Oklahoma!, and The Music Man, amongst others, sat down with Wicked superstar Cynthia Erivo on Variety\u2019s Actors on Actors to discuss their work in Broadway musicals, the theater, and film.
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Jackman, who recently starred in the Song Sung Blue biopic, expressed his wish that movie musicals would be\u00a0seen throughout the world:<\/p>\n
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\u00a0“I want the world to have movie musicals, and thankfully, they\u2019re back. Any expectation I had, you just sailed [past]. It\u2019s the Mount Everest of movie-making,\u00a0musicals. I really think it\u2019s the hardest thing to pull off.”<\/p>\n
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The 57-year-old admitted that he likened his performances to services:<\/p>\n
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“I take a minute before I go out, and I say a little phrase: \u201cAllow this moment to be in service. Of consciousness. Of God. Of the absolute. Of whatever it is,\u201d \u2014 beyond Hugh Jackman or the Oscars or what this is going to do for me. I need that.”<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt took me a few years just to feel grounded,\u201d Hugh Jackman recalls his early years as an actor<\/p>\n
Jackman, whilst speaking with Cynthia Erivo in an interview hosted by Variety on December 10, 2025, recalled how he dealt with the fame that came with his first successful movie:<\/p>\n
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“It\u2019s been a pretty massive four or five years. Is it settling in? I went through a bit of it with \u201cX-Men.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u00a0Erivo implored him to shed more light on his experience, and he obliged:<\/p>\n
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“I was 29. Luckily, no one recognized me as Wolverine on the street. I remember two guys arguing \u2014 in front of me \u2014\u00a0 \u201cThat\u2019s him!\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s not him.\u201d I pulled out my license to settle the argument. It took me a few years to feel grounded.”<\/p>\n
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Jackman also admitted that he had stopped being anxious over how people reacted to his projects and had learnt to let things be and just trust his instincts.<\/p>\n
The Wicked actress asked Jackman about the future of his Wolverine character, to which he replied that he thought the Logan movie would be his last in the X-Men cinematic universe:<\/p>\n
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“It doesn\u2019t feel like the end. It really felt like the end after \u201cLogan.\u201d Actually, I\u00a0needed\u00a0to claim it as the end because I really believed in some things that I wanted that movie to be, and I had to fight for them. I had to say, \u201cThis is the last time I\u2019m doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n
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He added that he saw the script for Deadpool vs. Wolverine and changed his mind.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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\u201cI\u2019ve told everyone that I\u2019m done. I\u2019m not one of those guys.\u201d Then I went, \u201cYou know what? I change my mind. It\u2019s not that big of a deal. I\u2019m not even gonna say I\u2019m sorry.\u201d And it was so awesome.”<\/p>\n
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