- LOS ANGELES — Hollywood star Hugh Jackman didn’t have a very pleasant experience
while auditioning for ‘Les Miserables’. In fact, the actor wanted to run out of
his audition, because he felt so "humiliated".
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- The actor has revealed he read for the part of Jean
Valjean in the 2012 film and then sang the track ‘Stars’ for a panel of movie
bosses, but his voice cracked on the final note and he was overcome with
feelings of shame, reports ‘Female First UK’.
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- During a performance of ‘An Evening With Hugh Jackman’ at
the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, he told the audience, "I read first and
I could tell it was going well. Then I sang and I cracked on the final note so
spectacularly. Like it was the worst crack you could have ever imagined.
Whatever excitement was on the panel, it just deflated immediately. I was about
to run out, just humiliated”.
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- According to Variety, Jackman went on to add, "But
then the guy goes, ‘Whoa, hold on a second. Why did you sing that song?' I
said, ‘It’s the only thing I had music for. I’m sorry’. And he said, 'Well, you
can throw that away. You’ll never sing that again’. I think what he meant to
say was, 'Why don’t you put that to the side for like 30 years when you might
sing it at the Hollywood Bowl?’".
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- Jackman won the role and he went on to receive an Oscar
nomination for Best Actor. The film scored three wins at the Academy Awards
picking up Best Supporting Actress for Anne Hathaway as well as Best Sound
Mixing and Best Make-up and Hairstyling.
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- As per ‘Female First UK’, the actor is set to show off
his singing skills on screen again soon playing a Neil Diamond impersonator in
new movie 'Song Sung Blue'.
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- Jackman stars opposite Kate Hudson, who released her
debut album Glorious last year - as real life couple Mike and Claire Sardina,
who were Neil Diamond and Patsy Cline impersonators who formed a successful
tribute act named Lightning and Thunder.
