{"id":875581,"date":"2026-10-08T21:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T21:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/875581\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T21:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T21:36:09","slug":"hugh-jackman-on-treasure-island-morning-routines-and-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/875581\/","title":{"rendered":"Hugh Jackman on Treasure Island, Morning Routines and Meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tHugh Jackman<\/a> takes his morning routine seriously. The actor, who has spent decades maintaining the stamina required to play Wolverine and perform eight shows a week on Broadway, is an early riser, a devoted meditator and, apparently, not above breaking into song during a workout.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s a fitting premise for his latest campaign with AG1<\/a>, the daily nutritional supplement brand that named Jackman its global ambassador earlier this year. In a new spot, the actor puts his musical theater chops to work, singing his way through a workout while touting the benefits of his daily greens. The partnership is more than a celebrity endorsement: Jackman has been using AG1 for more than five years, after it was recommended by his doctor, and has been a strategic investor in the company since 2021.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI get offered a lot of things, and I just figured it\u2019s got to be something that makes sense to me, that I really believe in, and that I actually use,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tBelow, Jackman talks to Variety about his daily wellness rituals, 30-year meditation practice, his upcoming role in Ridley Scott\u2019s \u201cTreasure Island\u201d and, yes, Wolverine\u2019s future in the MCU.<\/p>\n

\t\tWhat does your morning routine look like \u2014 and what\u2019s the first thing that tends to fall apart when you\u2019re in the middle of a film shoot?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tIf I\u2019m getting up very early, I will not meditate straight away when I get up. But I\u2019ve been a meditator for 30 years. Sometimes I\u2019ll wait, do it at lunchtime, but I\u2019ve kind of learned my lesson. No matter what the call time is for filming, I still just get up a little bit earlier and get everything done.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s better. I mean, there\u2019s not much difference between waking up at four a.m. and waking up at six. It\u2019s kind of the same, ultimately.<\/p>\n

\t\tSo you\u2019re one of those people that can survive off of not that much sleep?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tWell, I still like seven, eight hours. Sometimes more if I can. But I was not a morning person until I had a job opening up a gym, which I opened up at six a.m. I slept in twice, and I basically was told, \u201cYou do not want to be late for the people who are turning up for that six a.m. workout.\u201d No matter how nice you are, they will not give you too many tries. So then I used to set three alarms, and that sort of changed it. Really, from that moment on, I was a morning person.<\/p>\n

\t\tHow does your location affect your routine and lifestyle?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tOne of my favorite things, if I\u2019m in Australia \u2014 I live right on the beach \u2014 I will always get up before the sun gets up because I can be in the water as the sun comes up. And I just think, \u2018Why isn\u2019t everyone on the planet doing this?\u2019 You never feel better.<\/p>\n

\n\tI do way more walking in New York than anywhere else. Even though it\u2019s probably the most condensed city, I just walk everywhere, or I ride a bike everywhere. But I like to be active in the morning.<\/p>\n

\t\tYou\u2019ve worked with AG1<\/a> for a long time and you clearly love it. What did you actually notice when you started taking it that made you stick with it for so long?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tThat I wasn\u2019t getting sick. For me, getting a cold, particularly as I sing and I do concerts or being on stage, it\u2019s got a little more weight to it.<\/p>\n

\n\tIf you get a cold, you go into the office, or even if you\u2019re doing a play, you\u2019re like, \u201cOh, sniffle.\u201d But when you\u2019re singing, it\u2019s really important. My doctor just said, \u201cMan, you\u2019re a busy guy. It\u2019s hard to get everything you need. It\u2019s almost impossible to get everything you need just through nutrition with a busy lifestyle. Take this, and then you\u2019re covered foundationally, like your gut health.\u201d And so I just noticed that I was waking up a little faster, I was not getting sick, and I just felt better.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Hugh<\/p>\n

\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\tAG1 Greens Powder Refill Pouch \t\t<\/p>\n

\t\tIn the campaign video, you start singing during your workout. I know musicians sometimes run on the treadmill while they\u2019re singing their sets to rehearse. Do you ever do that?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tAbsolutely. Particularly if you\u2019re going to tap dance, or you\u2019re dancing, or if you\u2019re doing something like that, any song-and-dance number. I notice it\u2019s the fittest I will ever be because singing \u2014 it\u2019s one thing to just run fast and be out of breath and your heart rate\u2019s going 170, but to be able to hold your breath, if you think about it, you\u2019re singing a long phrase. You don\u2019t want to be taking a breath every three seconds while you\u2019re singing. So you have to be calm and still have lung capacity whilst your heart rate\u2019s going 160. And every time I finish a show and I go for a run, I can run forever. So you have to practice singing whilst running, jumping rope or doing whatever.<\/p>\n

\t\tI feel like Taylor Swift was the first person I saw doing that routine, and then I realized this is just a completely normal routine for singers.\t<\/p>\n

\n\tThe first person I heard about doing it, I remember when I was young, was Mick Jagger. He went on that world tour and he said, \u201cIn order to do what I do, I have to be running 10, 15 miles a day.\u201d And when you\u2019re traveling, being fit is key for sleep. I think sleep is the number one factor for me.<\/p>\n

\t\tYou did say you were going to play Wolverine until you were in your 90s, so\u2014\t<\/p>\n

\n\tTo be clear, Ryan Reynolds said that. <\/p>\n

\t\tMeditation is another one of your non-negotiables. How did you get into meditation?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tI learned meditation originally through the School of Practical Philosophy, which I was introduced to by a friend when I was doing acting. You know when you\u2019re around people and you feel they\u2019ve got something about them, you can\u2019t put your finger on it? I literally said that to him. I said, \u201cThere\u2019s something about you, man.\u201d His name was Warwick. I said, \u201cWarwick, there\u2019s something about you. I don\u2019t know what it is, but I kind of feel like I want it, whatever that is.\u201d And he goes, \u201cOh, I started meditating.\u201d I\u2019m like, \u201cWhat? What is that?\u201d And he goes, \u201cIt\u2019s transcendental meditation\u201d and it changed everything. And it did.<\/p>\n

\n\tI was 22, 23, and it really changed everything. It gives me a place to, what I call, kind of coming home to myself twice a day, no matter what\u2019s going on. So the surface of the water, which is our life \u2014 right now, for you and I, it\u2019s pretty calm on the surface \u2014 but whatever\u2019s happening on the surface, if you sink down to the bottom of the ocean, it\u2019s always calm and peaceful. And that is what meditation represents to me. So it\u2019s like a twice-a-day reminder of what is there under the surface.A<\/p>\n

\t\tYou\u2019re set to star in Ridley Scott\u2019s \u201cTreasure Island.\u201d How did Ridley sell you on this character that people already know so well?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tReally, it was the script. I know Ridley and Ridley goes, \u201cDude.\u201d He sent me the script, and I just read it. I had never read the book, had never seen the movie. I knew various things about it. I actually didn\u2019t know how foundational it was \u2014 the idea of a treasure map, the pirate and the parrot and all. I was like, \u201cOh, they came from that.\u201d And Jack Thorne, who famously wrote \u201cAdolescence\u201d and did \u201cHarry Potter\u201d for the stage show \u2014 this script was just undeniable. I was just like, \u201cOh, this is amazing.\u201d That was it.<\/p>\n

\t\tWhat was it about his take on the material that surprised you?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tAll I knew was I had no idea where it was going, and I was very surprised but satisfied at the end.<\/p>\n

\t\tYou\u2019ve said you\u2019re not going to be in \u201cDoomsday\u201d \u2014 but are you going to be in \u201cSecret Wars\u201d?\t<\/p>\n

\n\tI don\u2019t know what you\u2019re talking about. I have no idea what you\u2019re talking about.<\/p>\n

\t\tI had to ask, but that was a very civilized answer.\t<\/p>\n

\n\tI do have an internal chip, that is not metaphorical. There\u2019s a literal chip, and if I say the wrong thing, I get shut down. I don\u2019t know who controls that chip, but someone is controlling it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hugh Jackman takes his morning routine seriously. The actor, who has spent decades maintaining the stamina required to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":875582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88,29335],"class_list":["post-875581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-hugh-jackman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}