In the last weeks, Hugh Jackman It has been in so many headlines. His return as Wolverine has unleashed all kinds of comments and statements, but few knew about this detail that was just revealed. And it is that even when we are used to seeing him in action tapes or some musicals, the Hugh Jackman was about to appear in Miss Congeniality beside Sandra Bullock. However, what initially excited him ended up becoming one of his most humiliating moments.
In an interview for Variety, the Australian recalled some moments that made him the well-known figure he is today. Among them he remembered the papers that he did not obtain and certain anecdotes that nobody knew. Can you imagine him in a comedy like Miss Congeniality? Here his words.
“Nobody knew about X-Men yet. I was nobody. I read the script with Bullock and thought, ‘Damn. She is amazing! Also very fast and quick for comedy. I’m not even remotely close to that speed. She pedaled as fast as she could, but she didn’t know the script well enough. It was the first time that I auditioned with another actor. I was impressed that she was there. I didn’t expect it. I estimate that about eight people tested it. That’s humiliating, when your agent tells you, ‘I don’t want you to have this job, but she go and get it,’ and I didn’t get it.”
Jackman auditioned to join the cast of the film with the character of the FBI agent, Eric Matthews, who finally ended up at the hands of Benjamin Bratt. Nowadays, we would think that whatever role Jackman wants, he will have it, so it is very interesting to know a little more about his past and the roles that, even when they seemed easy, he could not get.
However, he did not audition because he was genuinely attracted to the film, but because he felt that having the role would help him in the future. According to his agent at the time, participating in a comedy like that with a star like Bullock would be enough for him to join Someone Like You, with Ashley Judd. Either way, she landed the part in that rom-com, so her rejection didn’t cause him any big problems.
Currently, Jackman is in the promotion of The Son, the new film by director Florian Zeller (The father). And according to experts, it could well give him an Oscar nomination for Best Actor.
John Joseph Cruz I am one of those who always defended Robert Pattinson as Batman and can see the same movie in the cinema up to 7 times. My guilty pleasure? Low budget horror movies.