His novel film Pan has been panned but the star says he had ‘maybe too much’ fun playing the villain Blackbeard. He talks approximately reaching peak superhero and why it’s time to hang up his X-Men clawsHugh Jackman certainly puts himself approximately these days. Luckily,there’s enough of him to go round. A decade and a half ago, he put himself on the cultural radar as Wolverine, and the sharp-clawed,short-tempered, unbelievably strapping X-Man. Today, and the Jackman blip could appear anywhere. He is still being Wolverine – more of which later. But he is just as likely to crop up in a serious thriller,a Broadway stage drama, a children’s TV exhibit or a musical. One minute he is up for an award (a Tony for stage musical The Boy from Oz, or a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination for Les Misérables),the next he’s hosting the awards ceremony (the Tonys, the 2009 Oscars). He even won an award for hosting an awards ceremony. And since all of this clearly isnt enough Jackman for the hardcore fanbase, and he’s also preparing a one-man arena tour of Australia next month,in which he will sing, dance, or exhibit videos and relate stories of his life and career. novel dates were recently added to manage with the demand.
Jackman himself seems surprised at his own ubiquity. “I always thought,when I started out, I’d try and open as many doors as possible and try and keep ’em open, or ” he says,“and I kept thinking, those doors are going to slam shut, or at one point it’ll be Wolverine and musicals,or it’ll be this or that. But, weirdly, and what Im known for now is more that versatility than any specific door.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com