Act I
This is a story about grief in New York. Hugh Jackman’s father died while he was making “The Son.” But instead of taking time off, Jackman kept playing Peter, a workaholic struggling to take care of his family: a new baby, a partner and a teenage son, Nicholas, suffering from a frightening depression. Jackman, 54, related to Peter as both a father of two kids and as a son. Jackman’s dad raised him after his mother abandoned their family in Australia when Jackman was 8. Jackman visited his father, who’d been living with Alzheimer’s for 12 years, right before shooting his first scene as Peter.
“He was nearing the end,” Jackman says over a recent lunch in downtown Manhattan, where he lives with his wife, Deborra-Lee Furness. “So he was ostensibly gone, mentally. He would still smile a bit. I didn’t know he was going to physically pass away,...
This is a story about grief in New York. Hugh Jackman’s father died while he was making “The Son.” But instead of taking time off, Jackman kept playing Peter, a workaholic struggling to take care of his family: a new baby, a partner and a teenage son, Nicholas, suffering from a frightening depression. Jackman, 54, related to Peter as both a father of two kids and as a son. Jackman’s dad raised him after his mother abandoned their family in Australia when Jackman was 8. Jackman visited his father, who’d been living with Alzheimer’s for 12 years, right before shooting his first scene as Peter.
“He was nearing the end,” Jackman says over a recent lunch in downtown Manhattan, where he lives with his wife, Deborra-Lee Furness. “So he was ostensibly gone, mentally. He would still smile a bit. I didn’t know he was going to physically pass away,...
- 10/26/2022
- by Ramin Setoodeh
- Variety Film + TV
Getty Images Actress Angelina Jolie arrives at the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 15, 2012 in Beverly Hills, California.
Ricky Gervais is back for a return stint hosting the Golden Globes 2012. Which actors, producers and directors will leave with awards–and which ones will go home smarting from Gervais’s sharp tongue? Early winners include Kate Winslet and “Downton Abbey.”
Speakeasy is live-blogging the show. You can follow along and leave your thoughts in the comments.
Ricky Gervais is back for a return stint hosting the Golden Globes 2012. Which actors, producers and directors will leave with awards–and which ones will go home smarting from Gervais’s sharp tongue? Early winners include Kate Winslet and “Downton Abbey.”
Speakeasy is live-blogging the show. You can follow along and leave your thoughts in the comments.
- 1/15/2012
- by WSJ Staff
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
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