STAGE TUBE: Watch Hugh Jackman on 60 Minutes - Tears & Chat About Career, LES MIS, BOY FROM OZ, Wolverine & More

By: Dec. 09, 2012
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Tonight on 60 MINUTES, Scott Pelley profiled the Australian actor and Broadway star known to most for his "X-Men" role as Wolverine, who now says he's doing the "role of a lifetime" as Jean Valjean in "Les Miserables." It’s a part he considers the “role of a lifetime,” and its generating Oscar buzz for best picture and best actor. The 60 MINUTES piece covers Jackman's childhood, his 'rock' of a father, his wife of sixteen years, his workout reoutine & more. 

Fresh off the long absence from his family, Pelley asks him what advice his father is giving him these days. Jackman is silent for several seconds before gaining his composure. “It’s always about the family,” he says softly, wiping the corners of his eyes and apologizing to Pelley for the unexpected show of emotion. “It’s always, ‘How’s Deb?’ It’s not about work and I think that’s him living with, probably some of his regrets and feelings of maybe he… at the wrong time put too much into his career and he doesn’t want me to make that mistake,” he tells Pelley. “And so, in his gentle way, he always reminds me that this is the most important thing.” Watch a clip.

In the profile, Pelley traces Jackman’s life from childhood, when the acting bug bit him in prep school, to his success on Broadway in roles other actors might avoid. He played the gay Australian songwriter Peter Allen, a part that won him a Tony and also started rumors.

Asked by Pelley if he thought twice about doing the role that might limit his career, he responds, “Never thought it for a second. What sexuality you are is not the most interesting thing about you. It’s the kind of person you are and that role just had, first of all, it was naughty,” says the actor most famous for playing the murderous mutant Wolverine in the "X-Men" films. “I would never give myself permission to do the things I did as Peter Allen and his sexuality, for me, is another costume. It’s a personality trait, it’s not who you are.”



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