Photo Flash: New LES MISERABLES Still Featuring Hugh Jackman Released!

As BroadwayWorld previously reported, the highly anticipated film adaptation of LES MISERABLES was to feature new music from original composer/lyricist team Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg.  There has been much speculation about what the new song might be, and the film's leading man Hugh Jackman sat down yesterday with The Telegraph to talk details on the addition of the new solo for Jean Valjean.

"He says he never knew the love of a mother, a father, of brothers or sisters and vice versa, never loved anyone," Jackman says. "So he meets this little girl who's in his care, he experiences this flood of emotion that for a 50-year-old man has never occurred. It's a pretty amazing invention of Victor Hugo and it's never really been dealt with in the stage musical."

He also chatted about what it was like shooting the scene pictured below, as released by DailyBlam.com. Jackman revealed: "It was below zero, it was very windy, singing live, you can see the steam, you can hear the cold in my voice. I was literally freezing. To be doing that miming, that is a whole different thing."

Les Misérables is the motion-picture adaptation of the beloved global stage sensation seen by more than 60 million people in 42 countries and in 21 languages around the globe and still breaking box-office records everywhere in its 27th year. Helmed by The King’s Speech’s Academy Award-winning director, Tom Hooper, the Working Title/Cameron Mackintosh production stars Hugh Jackman, Oscar® winner Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne, Aaron Tveit, Samantha Barks, with Helena Bonham Carter and Sacha Baron Cohen.

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