VIDEO: PAN's Hugh Jackman Shares Playing a Pirate Was Good for His Romantic Life

By: Oct. 06, 2015
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Best known for playing Wolverine in the X-Men films and for his Broadway roles, Hugh Jackman sat down with TODAY's Matt Lauer to talk about his new role as Blackbeard in the new movie PAN. The actor says "it was a blast" playing the villainous pirate and he has a recommendation for viewers. "Everyone should try shaving their head at least once." He also says that playing a pirate was good for his romantic life, because his wife has a thing for "bad boys." Check out the appearance below:

Hugh Jackman will be polishing his dancing shoes for an all-new stage show set to tour throughout his native Australia later this year. Titled BROADWAY TO OZ, the concert show is scheduled to hit five major Australian cities and is described as "a personal journey through Jackman's life, from early days in Outback Australia through successes in musical theater and Hollywood stardom." Included in the song list will be tunes that Jackman has performed throughout his career, as well as musical tributes to the classics. The Tony winner will be accompanied by 150 musicians and dancers.

Jackman is an Academy Award®-nominated, Golden Globe® and Tony Award®-winning actor. The Australian native was most recently on Broadway in his one-man show Hugh Jackman - Back on Broadway in the fall of 2011. Jackman's dedication to the Broadway community was feted at the 2012 Tony Awards, where he received a Special Award from the TONY AWARDS Administration Committee, recognizing his accomplishments as a performer and humanitarian. He previously starred on Broadway in Keith Huff's play, A Steady Rain, opposite Daniel Craig, and as 1970s singer-songwriter Peter Allen in The Boy From Oz, for which he received the 2004 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical as well as Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critics Circle and Theatre World Awards.

Additional theater: Carousel at Carnegie Hall, Oklahoma! at the National Theatre in London (Olivier nomination), Sunset Boulevard (MO Award, Australia's Tony Award) and Disney's BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (MO Award nomination). Jackman made his first major U.S. film appearance as Wolverine in the first installment of the X-Men series, a role he reprised in the enormously successfulX2 and X-Men: The Last Stand in 2006, as well as X-Men Origins: Wolverine in 2009 and in The Wolverine in 2013. Jackman reunited with the X-men team for X-Men: Days of Future Past.


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