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It all started on a cricket ground in Australia more than three decades ago. Hugh Jackman, thirteen years old, a.k.a. "sticks" because he was all members, played a sliding position that puts the player very close to the dough. (For an American sports equivalent, imagine a person squatting without protective gear next to a baseball tray.) You must make reflexive seconds of a second. And boom, here came the ball. To his right. He had to reach. It is mounted.

The sticks do not remember the rest.

"I went out because I had torn all the muscles attached to the lower left of my spine."

From that moment, the young Hugh grew up 11 inches the previous year. He was a beanpole of oneself. His spine and his legs broke out in adolescence and his muscles and his tendons had not had time to catch up. They were essentially stretched tight and reaching this bullet the shredders.

The good news: he took the grip.

In addition to the muscle and the bone, a man is nothing but a collection of experiences. Our experiences force the action, the reaction. They cause pain and laughter. They leave deep furrows and flooded with memory in our minds, places where we go back when we try to make sense of new situations. In the end, as the way prehistoric life finally becomes a fossil fuel, we are (hopefully) left with something valuable: wisdom.

Hugh Jackman has memories. Good and bad. Painful and funny. They made it the man he is today and there is a reason why he would not give up any of them. For example, this cricket catches. It seems painful, but hardly life, is not it? Well, in many ways, that a moment helped Hugh Jackman become an actor. And a world-class dancer. And a man who, in his fourth decade, is stronger and more in shape than anyone who you know who is half of his age.

"I spent about 10 days in bed [after the outlet]," he says. "I had a bad return for a few years. I had to do a lot of physiotherapy for that. What I could not understand at the time, that's why the therapists had done a lot of work from the stomach . "

It was long before the word "core" became fashionable. But Jackman had to slowly give up all his nucleus to health and in a sufficient condition sufficient to support his back forever, basically. So, abdominal packaging has been a priority for him since and the foundation of training for each physical role he has never taken - to play cargon in theX Men movies to his role like Jean Valjean inWretched, Probably the transformation on the most difficult screen he never had to do, he says.

"My transformation covers about 30 years. At first, my character is released from prison, which was fundamentally a labor camp. He is emaciated but I am known for his strength. So I was so skinny and strong as I think I've ever been. I had scanned cheeks, this backup looked at. Then, in a question of weeks during the shoot, the story jumps 9 years. I am the mayor of the city and rich, so I had to change my eyes. So it took me about 3 months to get into this form to be a convict, then for 3 months of shooting, I ate either and that 30 pounds were heavier when we finish. This t-shirt with where I must be for Wolverine. "

Jackman made a kind of physical transformation for virtually every movie he did, fromX Men in Darren ArronofskyFountain Flick Robo-BoxingTrue steel. And all this started with AB work.

"Physically, this catch has changed a lot to me. I feel like I have had a starting head. It made me more sporty in the long run. And it made me understand very early that you need a strong core to protect your back. "

As a young man with a bad return, Jackman was forced to passionate about fitness. Wherever another gym, a fitness buffalo would work, especially when he tries to make enough money to pay for actor lessons? Ten years after her injury, Jackman worked in a fitness club in Sydney, when something else unexpected arrived and changed her life.

"I worked upon receipt of this gym called the physical plant. I distributed locker keys to people, towels. I would like to point out people and give visits from the gym. So this woman is Entrance. She was very lively. I showed her around and she said, "I want to register." I said, "Terrify. Would you like a membership of 3, 6 or 12 months? "Just at that moment, she looks at me, halls and go" ohmigod ". I'm like" what? "And she goes," I just want you to know , I am a white witch and I see things. And you will become a vasive international star. ""

Jackman laughs at that. "I was like", sorry. Sorry, was it a 3, 6 or 12 month membership? "I thought she was out of his rocker. So I registered it and his name is Annie Semaler. And I said any relationship with Dean Smler, who had literally won the best Oscar cinematography forDance with wolves. She said, "Yes, it's my husband." She wrote the name of this woman, Penny Williams. She said, "She is an agent in Sydney. You will call him tomorrow, things will happen very quickly, and you are going to have to go with that. '

At the time, Jackman was a few months in an actor class; Looking back, he is the first to admit he did not know anything. "I knew what an agent had never thought that I would have it in fact. So I'll meet the agent the next day. And she says," I'd like to take you. "And I said," You do not want me to make a monologue or anything? How do you know if I can act? "And she makes fun of me and says," Do not worry, I know. I send you a hearing tomorrow. "I think," an audition, it's amazing. ""

The next day Jackman tried an Australian show called "neighbors", a night soap that was also a launch pad for Guy Pearce and Kylie Minogue. Down under, it was an institution. "Then I audition ... and get the share! When I hear the news, all I can think of this white witch, Annie Semaler, things will happen very quickly." Here, Jackman's voice turns the conspirator. "I admit that I was a little uncomfortable. As I entered a kingdom here. If I dress someone, will I go upset the spirits? And it becomes stranger. The same day I was offered a slot in a very prestigious theater school. "

Now, he had a major choice to do: real world experience on a large television show? Or a strong, indispensable, indispensable dramatic workout (and in the depths of his mind, perhaps pissed off by spirits)? "I agonized. But I made the choice to go to the theater school. I immediately sounded Annie because I did not know what would happen. I'm sorry, I did not follow your advice." And she said, "No, no, no. I did not say what was going to happen. I said that many would have occurred. You made the perfect perfect choice."

He smiles. "I have to tell you that I was at Pine-Wood Studios last week and Annie Semler was there. Annie always checks my aura every time she sees me. And it's crazy, but all she says to me is become reality. "

A few years later, while working on "Corelli", another Australian TV show, Jackman met with the Deborra-Lee Furness actress, who was already a star of the stars. They married in 1996.

"When I married Deb, I will never forget the minister giving the sermon. It was very fast. One of the best sermons I've ever heard in my life. He said," Look, you are Everything here. I am here. I'm just going to tell you some advice on marriage. Nothing but I will say today will flow, but listen to that. At any time of your wedding, there will be moments of difficulty, a decision-making or a kind of crisis. In these moments, ask yourself a question: "Is it good or bad for my wedding?" If that's fine, you do it. If it's bad, you do not do it.

"It's really stuck with me," says Jackman. "It's something deb and I have always joined, and now it also applies to our children. At one point, something must be sacrificed. For me, because of my education, the Accent has always been my family. I have not always been my family. Do not you always do it. But if I ask myself this question, this answer is usually quite simple. "

Jackman has two adopted children - Oscar, aged 16 and Ava, aged 11. He was the youngest of five growing brothers and sisters in Australia and becoming a father helped him better understand a fruitful event that happened with his own parents. under 30 years old.

"One of my friends has a 12 year old son and the child cries to his father," I hate you, you are the worst father of the history of the world! "And my friend shouts," Well, that's the first time I have never done that and I do not know anything! "And the child stops and go, 'Oh.' "Jackman laughs. "Great moments of parenthood, right?"

Parenting is a big deal in Jackman. Her mother left her family at the age of 8, moved to England and leave Jackman's father and four brothers and sisters. He had deep resentments about it while growing up. "This kind of experience changes you in many ways. I am an independent person, and I had to be. As a boy and growing in a young man, I had to look at me for myself. And now I am very familial- oriented. It's a big priority in my life. "

Like many first fathers, Jackman discovered that his parents were just people doing their best, they could with what they had. "As your child is born you realize that no one knows anything. Nobody goes to the classes. You just have a child. You can read all the books you love, but unfortunately none of our children have read The books so they are not supported. You basically do it as you go. "

As a result, "As you get older, you have more respect and empathy for your parents, I have a great relationship with both."

It's a Hollywood truism that Hugh Jackman is one of the most beautiful guys in the industry and be nice, it's a characteristic instilled in him by his father. But for any man raised to respect those who surround him, knowing when to go to get along and when to take a position can be delicate.

"I have never heard that my father says a bad word about someone," he says. "He always keeps his emotions in check and is a real gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, an selfish act. And I lost it several times on Set.

"On the firstX Men, They had hired these Hong Kong guys to shoot a particular combat sequence. These guys were fast. They knew exactly what they wanted and we were doing something like 33 configurations a day, which is incredible. At one point, Jackman, while Wolverine - wearing real metal claws for this sequence - had to cut through a chain fence section that was thrown by mystical (Rebecca Romijn). The fence was an "escape", which it was supposed to tear, including a hard rubber bar at the bottom. So the cup was very real.

"Now, I already said," The guys, we are tired, I want to practice. "They are like:" We have only one fence, it will be fine. I'm like, "What's about this last bar, how can I cut through? 'And they are like, it will be fine. I had no nakers, so no one listened to me. But I instinctively knew something was disabled. "

When they called Action, Compacca Romijn's Stund Double Jackman loaded with fence. "As she comes to me, she falls forward and, as I cut the fence, I just missed hitting my eyes. I bowed my hand and the heel of my palm went directly into his chin and struck it . "

Jackman laughs in memory-now. "I can say safely that it was the only time I never hit a girl in the face - and I struck him. But at the time, it was a shocking moment. I have just felt this washing of embarrassment and anger and humiliation. I was half crazy with myself and half crazy about these guys, and I lost it. I have just lost it. I crime and shout, it's an amateur hour! And I left. "

Jackman pauses. "The moment was totally indulgent, all about me. Totally selfish. And that's what I felt badly. So I learned a lot that day. The film is important. People who make the movie are More important. "

Since then, Jackman has reserved his explosions for Wolverine's Berserine rage scenes. For everyone, it's a professionalism and a pleasant. But he learned something else that day: When your intestine tells you that something is off, talk big and fast.

In a scene of his film of 2001Kate & Leopold, The character of Jackman, a time of the 19th century, would be a horse a horse through the modern central park. Jackman abounded. "I said," I'm not doing this waterfall. "And they are like: 'What do you mean? We have just spent an hour and 15 minutes configuring it. I said," I do not feel good about it. You ask me to ride on these rewarding metal and wet pavers. I'm not a good rider to help the horse if he slips. "They were angry and had my double do.

"And Lo and here, my double got up - and he's an experienced rider - and the horse slips. My double was able to jump, and the horse immediately right, thankfully. But I would probably have killed myself and horse . "

Know when to remember: it is a lesson that would have saved a 13 year old beanpole, a lot of pain. But that would not have built the man Hugh Jackman is today.

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