Hugh Jackman has always looked for a way to escape the “action hero” label. To show that behind Wolverine’s claws was an actor who wanted to challenge and teach other aspects. He did it through music, his favorite genre and where he received the best reviews of his career for roles like Les Miserables And even a 2004 Tony for The boy from Oz. Perhaps that is why he fought against all odds to get the lead role of Son, Adapting Florian Zeller’s self-directed play which is, in a way, an apocryphal sequel to his earlier work, the father, For which he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay and Anthony Hopkins for Best Actor.
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Jackman was close to starring in a stage version of one of Zeller’s plays, but the project ultimately fell through. after vision the father Read the text Son She felt “the need to compulsively play this role”. Without thinking twice, he sent a letter to the director, who was just looking for a cast for the film adaptation of his work. “I know you’re working on adapting that play. If you’re already dancing with another actor, forgive my letter. But if not, I’d like to have a conversation with you.” “I felt it was a very honest message, with a lot of truth,” recalls Florian Zeller of the Venice Film Festival, where the film competed for the Golden Lion.
They met over Zoom (the pandemic was still raging), and after eight minutes Zeller stopped the conversation and told Hugh Jackman he wanted to be him. I wasn’t planning to make any decisions that day, but something unseen happened. I felt it. It was a script that dealt with something deep and I cared about it and I didn’t want anyone to fake feelings. I had that intuition and it was the best decision I could have made, because the process was so intense yet so full of truth and joy. I am so grateful that he wanted to do this and follow me. He works like a dancer, in a very artistic way, he controls everything and this story was about a man losing control and that’s why we made the decision not to rehearse and jump straight into the unknown and into the emotions that can overwhelm us on set, but Zeller explained in front of Hugh Jackman, that you had to To hold and embrace to share with people.
in Son He gives life to a man with a perfect life, a lawyer, upper class, with a teenage son with his ex and a new romantic partner. Everything falls apart when his son’s mental health begins to fail. This is where all the tics of a guy who thinks he has everything under control will come out. A manhood focused on not showing emotion, a castrated father – the wonderful Anthony Hopkins – who took his frustration, pain and inability to understand what was happening to his entire family. A father who, in his ways of helping, ends up dragging the teen into the abyss.
Jackman admitted to Zeller that he would have been angry if he had not been given the part. A character who touched him on the inside because of his “fear and helplessness”. He added, “I honestly threw myself into the character and discovered things about myself through the process.” Jackman is a father of two, and teen mental health is an issue close to his heart and one that has grown on him, especially since the pandemic. “It’s very easy to think that when you were young you weren’t doing these things, but you have to understand what this generation of teens is going through. There are so many different things, from the pandemic to the climate crisis. There is a lot of anxiety in teens,” he says.
It’s so easy to think you didn’t do those things when you were young, but you have to understand what this generation of teens is going through, from the pandemic to the climate crisis.
The actor was moved after reading an article in an Australian newspaper which stated that “one in four Australian teenagers had considered taking their own life in the past year”. “So many things are happening in this generation that our generation may be hard to understand, and added to that is the parental helplessness, this tension of not knowing whether you have to continue to provide for them or to let them go. That underlying tension is always with your children until their teens, But there it gets more complicated when we talk about mental health issues.
Although this role is a dramatic turn and one of the more adult roles in his filmography, Jackman never really felt “in print”. “There was a season, I think 2003 or 2004, when they only gave me action movies, but for me it was always a surprise to do action movies, because I’ve always been on stage. It was also a surprise that I started doing musicals. I didn’t sing.” Never before my first musical. I didn’t choose that kind of thing on purpose nor did I do it to send a message to people that I’m not an ‘action actor’ or an ‘actor in musicals.’ Now I am more instinctive in my choices and the best example of that is this role,” he said from Venice.
Now he views everything from a vantage point in a profession he considers “very unsafe”. “You never know where things are going. In other jobs, you sign on and you know you’ve had a job for five years, but here you’re doing different projects all the time and you have to trust, and finding the balance between work and family life there is really important. I see my journey as an actor as something Personal, as a growth journey. That’s why I got into acting, because I wanted to find answers to the most important questions in life, not because the idea of being famous or successful, which never interested me,” he stresses about a career that made him a star, and even a superhero—and he The role he will resume in the new version of dead pool–And But this did not always appreciate him as much as an actor.
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