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Hugh Jackman is featured on the November/December cover of
Men's Vogue, photographed by
Norman Jean Roy on a boat in Sydney Harbour.
The Aussie actor's latest film,
'The Prestige', will debut in movie theaters on
October 18 and his two-month-old production company,
Seed, already has fifteen films in development. As
Gaby Wood writes of her interview with Hugh, "this year he has entered a new era, both as an actor of exceptional range and as an imaginative producer of global ambition."
Hugh on how being abandonned as a child - his mother left when he was eight- taught him to be fearless when facing obstacles: "I think it's fair to say that my siblings all felt varying degrees of anger, far more than I did. I always had a connection with my mum. If there's ever any problem between us, we talk about it, and I think I understood as I got older that she was just not ... not well at the time. I remember art drama school, I was always a very happy-go-lucky kind of person, and drama school's not the place to be happy-go-lucky. You're meant to be tortured and smoking cigarettes and breaking down in classes. I thought: I've got to find some more demons here."
Hugh on his jitters when meeting Clint Eastwood: "I turned and said: 'Hi Clint, I'm Hugh Jackman, nice to meet you. Listen, I did a movie called X-Men, I don't know if you've seen it, but many people after seeing that film thought I looked like a younger version of you. I didn't plan to say any of that. It just came out. And Clint just looked at me and said: 'You're holding up the line, kid.'"