![]() ![]() Is that an approach he’d articulated to you beforehand? Tom Hooper shot the film in a very distinctive manner: lots of close-ups, lots of long takes. I knew enough about movies to know what a risk it was, but as it was shooting, I was like, ‘What is everyone thinking? This is kind of crazy.’ So I was really happy and relieved to watch it. ![]() I remember I was holding my wife’s hand, and she goes, ‘Baby, my hand is really hurting.’ I was gripping that hard! I kind of couldn’t believe what I was seeing. I went to a private screening with about ten people and my wife. ![]() Tell me about the first time you saw the film. Vulture caught up with Jackman a few weeks ago in Los Angeles to get his take on how it all came together. Still, holding out to play Jean Valjean was probably worth the wait, if the movie’s big box office and Oscar buzz are anything to judge by. Hugh Jackman is best known as the action star of several X-Men movies, but his affinity for musical theater is so well-known - he won a Tony for The Boy From Oz and had his dichotomy of talents spoofed in a recurring Saturday Night Live sketch - that it’s a surprise he’d never done a movie musical before Tom Hooper’s splashy film version of Les Misérables. ![]()
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