Hugh Jackman is probably one of those gifted celebrities in Hollywood, who has not earned haters. He is kind to his co-stars on the set, to the crew, and also to his fans. This ”gem of a person” has had quite the ups and downs in his life, to become the person he is today. It took him a lot of patience and dedication to have his major comeback ‘Wolverine’.
This man has seen everything and yet has the discipline of a ninja and the heart of an innocent kid. On account of his upcoming film, ‘The Son’ which is expected to hit the theatres on November 25, 2022, Jackman’s relationship with his father was re-kindled in many interviews. As suave as he is, Jackman told the story of his relationship with his old man.
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Why Did ‘The Son’ Star Refuse To Take off And Grieve His Father’s Death?
Hugh Jackman‘s father died while he was filming ‘The Son’. Instead of taking time off to grieve, he continued playing the character Peter, a workaholic struggling to take care of his family. In a COVID-19 bubble in September 2021, Jackman pulled director Florian Zeller aside one morning to tell him about his father’s death. His eyes glinted whilst speaking about his father. “My father never missed a day of work,” Jackman says, explaining why he resisted taking time off to grieve. “I could feel him. I knew if he could talk to me, he’d be like, ‘You got to go to work! What are you talking about?’ I felt his presence on the set.”
“He was nearing the end,” Jackman says over a recent lunch in downtown Manhattan to VARIETY, where he lives with his wife, Deborra-Lee Furness. “So he was ostensibly gone, mentally. He would still smile a bit. I didn’t know he was going to physically pass away, but I knew it was kind of a goodbye.” Jackman’s dad raised him after his mother abandoned their family in Australia when Jackman was 8. He visited his father, who’d been living with Alzheimer’s for 12 years, right before shooting his first scene as Peter. The 54-year-old actor, related to Peter as both a father of two kids and as a son.
Why Hugh Wanted To Play In ‘The Son’?
Jackman has played ‘Wolverine‘ in nine movies and has charted a career for himself extending even to award-winning musicals. His acting in the musicals ‘Les Misérables’ and ‘The Greatest Showman’ has got an n-number of critical acclaims and has received several accolades. Hunger for acting did not just stop him with musicals, he even went on to star in crime dramas and on Broadway. He has toured the globe as the star of the 2019 concert, ‘The Man. The Music. The Show.’, belting out some of his favourite hits from ‘Somewhere Over the Rainbow’. Did I mention all of the stadiums he went were sold out? This man is a hunk of talent. Also, he has hosted Tony Awards four times! Is there anything he can’t do? Probably not!
Jackman felt that out of all these endeavours, and how they all shaped him, ‘The Son’ is probably the one of most hard-hitting films for him to work on. This film “fundamentally changed Jackman as an actor and as a man”. When the independently financed movie from Sony Pictures Classics opens in theaters on Nov. 25, it will probably change how we see Jackman. Everybody in Hollywood and not in Hollywood would know that Jackman is so “congenial” with everyone. It’s even funny when he tells a story about how he didn’t get cast as the hunk in “Miss Congeniality.” However, ‘The Son’ subverts that image of Jackman and that is exactly why he wanted to play that role.
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