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Hugh Jackman

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“Honestly, it was my pleasure, really, and keep up the great work and good luck with the puzzle, man. You too. You too. I'm telling you, man, I think I know enough about you Your girlfriend is going to ruin the day I ever met you.”
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“And I love that you use that phrase art living. It is an art. I used to think it was an Australian thing. Come on, all Americans always have therapists, psychiatrists. And come on, you know, silly, but it's a little arrogant to think you've got it all sorted out. Why wouldn't you want to help? Like, Roger Feder is the greatest tennis player of all time, and he is our full-time coach, right? Right. So why Pavarotti, Pavarotti had a singing... Teacher to the end of his life. Why wouldn't we invest that in the art of living? And so certainly with me, with Lauren Xander, that's changed my life in the last four years. Big time.”
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“And then when you go out for that coffee. It will always be different to you. You'll notice things that you have never noticed before.”
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“Send it off to, I think it's. Oh, I'll send it to you. I can't remember the name of it off by heart. I put it on my website once, my jigsaw puzzle or something.”
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“It's just deeply satisfying to my mind. I just feel very relaxed when I do it. I feel guilty when I do it because it's a very solitary thing. And I try and get the kids involved, you know, really to offset the guilt. But they're not into it, really. So, you know”
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“Spend all that time immersed in different colors and combinations and composition. Why is it so addictive? I don't know, like the reason I got into it, I got into it at a point my father had just had an operation or something. I thought, I've got to find something for the two of us to do together. And he had no interest. We were about 30 minutes in and he was like, yeah, I'm out. I had not done a puzzle since I was like eight years of age, and now I'm addicted to them. So it stuck for me. I think it's probably another form of meditation in a way. It stops my mind going. There is a weird sense of accomplishment, even in every piece. Oh, God, that piece. It's detail. It's you're zoning in on this image for a month and looking at it and looking at the detail.”
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“I like to do Puzzles of places that I've been or live in. Or now you can send in a photograph and I did this on Christmas. So I did this for Deb for Valentine's Day. I sent in a photo of the two of us. It's a shot she loves. And we're on a vacation to a place we always go to. So as I'm going through it, it's reminding me of where I've been, of that feeling in that moment. Because you look at a scene or the ones of New York, you're looking at this scene for about a month and you're focusing in minute details of this building and that building or that tree, this tree. When you go back to that place, you go out into that world, your appreciation of the world is so much greater. I guess I'm not an artist, but how artists must feel when they're trying to solve color, that when they watch a sunset, they're appreciating in a way far more.”
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“That's amazing. See, after a show, you said, What do I like doing after a show? Like, if I could have my way, I'd eat something and I'd just spend an hour doing a puzzle. I actually have to set my alarm to make myself go to bed because”
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“Start with a thousand piece, right? Anything less than that's probably going to be like a thousand piece is good. And that'll take you a few weeks, probably, but it's just enough of a challenge. Don't pick up the black and white photo, right? On the front cover to start with. Have some color, make it a little easier. I love the company Wentworth. There's a few other puzzle companies where Wentworth... When you put it, it's got like there's some technology when you put the piece in, it's like squeezing a pimple because it's like the best, like you know. There's some puzzles that are made a bit cheaply and you're like, I think that fits. Not sure. This has got something about it, click technology or something. So, yeah, clearly I'm into it.”
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“And he watched it over and over again. And he said, What he realized Carl Lewis did at the 50 meter mark, 60 meter mark, was that he did nothing. He is breathing was exactly the same, his form is exactly the same as had been between meters twenty five and fifty, whereas everyone else starts to push to the end, trying to try a little extra harder. He said their face would scrunch up, their jaw would tighten, their fists would start to clench, whereas Carlo would have stayed exactly the same. And then he would just breeze past them. So that's where he invented the 85% rule.”
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“Came from a guy studying Carl Lewis, the sprinter Couldn't understand why a guy who was routinely coming last or second last after 40 meters, which traditionally in sprinting was meant to be where you won. You won in the first 40 from the start, how someone like that would always win by 10 yards at the end. And some people said, Well, he's just a slow starter, but he's got a long stride. And then someone, this guy was studying it for a year. A sprint coach, and someone gave him finally one of those head on shots. You know, they invented the Olympics that head-on shot where you watch them come down.”
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“No, I don't like going to an opening night. Opening night, you feel everyone like this is an opening night. It's going to be the best. And I just want to go, hey, chill out, everyone. I prefer to go to a Wednesday matinee six weeks into the run. That's when you're going to see the best show. So, the trick is how can you get there? And by the way, do you know the 85% rule? Do you know where that came from?”
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“So there are some of the little things I use. And I suspect you're a little similar to me, Tim, right? The 85, you work better with the 85% rule.”
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“Victor Frankl quote Live life as though it's the second time around, but you got it wrong the first time. A good one, and that's what works for me. Or even if you practice a simple thing, just sit down and as you're breathing in Imagine that you're breathing out because a lot of us, me included, and I got this from my singing teacher, I breathe in with a, or I got to sing this big note. All right, let's have it goes. Well, you know, and all of a sudden I'm tense and my breathing's gone up, my larynx goes up, and I'm going to have to work my ass off together, no doubt, right? Whereas the great singers, the ones that make you melt when you listen to them sing, when they're breathing in, preparing, it's like they're breathing out. They're relaxed as they breathe in.”
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“No, no. And that's my, like everyone's got different things. If I was coaching me myself, like if I was the coach. And Hugh Jackman was on my team. I wouldn't put more pressure on him, push him more. I wouldn't yell at him, scream. I got that motivation. If anything I have had to work from building up insecurity, so I'm not good enough. I need to work extra hard. If I do everything perfectly and I work my ass off, then I'll be okay. That kind of thing, which in the end does... Certainly limit your ability to enjoy your life or enjoy the row or the show or anything like that. But it doesn't get the best out of you. It really doesn't. So I mentally, quite often during the day, just before I do an activity, imagine that it's done. That feeling I have when it's done. Gone well. And I go into it with that”
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“Yeah. It's such a good building exercise for deadlifts and all these core movements, compound movements, getting your scapula, everything sort of in the right place and you're breathing and relaxing your neck at the same time as doing it. Yeah, I would say the rower.”
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“The seven minute thing, and I had to do this for a film, a movie Australia as wanted me to be big, and so I was big. And then about a month before he said, ah, doing a lot of research about these jackaroos or cowboys. He goes, they're lean. They're all lean, lean, lean. And I'm like, dude, you asked me to get big. I've been getting big. And he goes, I need you lean. So I went to my trainer and he goes, who was a rower? And he said, you want to get lean? So as well as the ice baths that I learned from your book, which I used all through the Wolverines, particularly Later Wolverines, when you see me in better shape, that's a great way to lose fat, but seven minute row, four times a week, and the goal is 2,000 meters. And when you try it at some point, you're going to hate me for it. But still, that's the quickest, best way”
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“A really jacked ripped athlete slash dancer because fighting is dance. There's more relaxation in a fight scene than there is strength, which is probably the case if you think of all the great athletes you see. There's relaxation. And that movement has moved in sports. That's why you see every sprinter poking their tongue out now and dancing around with joy before they run the 100 meters. that sense of having the right level of relaxation. I think that they call it the 85% rule. If you tell most sort of A-type athletes to run at their 85% capacity, they will run faster than if you tell them to run 100 because it's more about relaxation and form and optimizing the muscles in the right way. So Beth has really taught me that. But the rowing machine, man, you can't go wrong. And if you get time, just”
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“She was a powerlifter and a dancer. So it really is great for me because, I mean, in the past, even with someone like Wolverine, I have to prepare to look physically away, but I can't get injured. So I can't prepare as a bodybuilder. I have to be able to prepare.”
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“Rowing machine. Definitely a rower. There's a reason the row is usually empty at the gym because it's difficult. And a lot of people want to say and feel they've worked out and they want to get a sweat, but they don't necessarily, and I learned a lot of this from your book, you know, and I worked at a gym, by the way, before our body. I worked at a gym for three years. So I saw a lot of people coming in five days a week and not really changing anything about them. The rowing machine, I think if you add in some chest work and push-ups that's in everything you need to keep fit healthy, strong. And I've learned a lot of that. I work with Beth Lewis, the trainer, who can look her up. She does a lot of free classes right now, I think, during COVID. I found her through Peter. Do you know Beth? Have you met Beth?”
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“Not saying I was the only person manifesting, but I do think that was a big turning point. And when Lauren slapped me around, that changed my attention to that project completely. And I don't think that ensures you. Against failure That quote of don't insure yourself for failure. You know what I mean? Don't have that safety net out all the time. I really learned that from Lauren. And that's probably one of the best career examples I can give of that daily design.”
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“I have such high regard for him because from the moment we started and eight years he was working on that film. Everything that's happened with that film, he used to say this is what's going to happen. This is going to be a movie that's going to be around forever. This is going to be one of the legacies of your career, Hugh, blah, blah, blah. He would say all these things. And I used to say to him, I said, Mike, this is your first film. Turn it down a little bit, dude. Why don't we just say we make a great film? Does it have to be one of the most successful films? He would literally say, this is the most successful musical of all time. And he would never deviate from that, ever.”
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“Pretty much going to fail. And you're preparing yourself for the failure. And you don't want to fall too far. So you've got the safety net. So that when it fails, you go, yeah, well, you know, if the studio spend a bit more money on the rider or blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, XYZ. I hung up the phone, slapped taken, a little stunned, and I just sat down for about an hour, and I imagined that. That movie was going to be in the tent, and I imagined the effect it would have and why we were doing it. And then I wrote all that down. And then I wrote that down every day to the day we finished principal photography. And then I had to recommit again when we were in the editing process. And I just, let me be clear, our director, by the way, Michael Gracie.”
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“I think you are laying the safety net. For the greatest showman to not work, and you're thinking up all the reasons outside of yourself why it won't work. You have 24 hours to either decide to get on or get off. But if you're on, you need to be a hundred percent in. And I was like, she's right. I wasn't preparing for a joke. What was the word? Maybe you're preparing for a choke, but. Clearly, it's easier to do that in life. You know, I'm going to give it a go. I'll give him my best. You know, look, I'm not sure. Musical is really hard. Original musical is impossible. You know, the studio won't spend this amount of money on this writer that we wanted. We got this writer, but, you know, we're going to give it our best. Like you're right there in your language.”
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“Give you a really great example of that manifesting. The greatest showman, and I have not told this story, I was on the fence about it for a long time. The studio were on the fence. I wasn't sure if they were going to make it. I just wasn't sure if our script was in the right place. And I had lots of reasons for that. And so Laura and my life coach, who I And has changed my life. She'll text me saying, I need to slap you. And I'm like, okay. So I ring her arm. She goes, all right. For example, sometimes she'll ring me up and say, you know, I think in general you're a good listener, but sometimes I think you're better at looking like a good listener than you really are a good listener. I was like, all right, challenge except that slap taken. But in this case, she said to me, I think you're preparing to choke.”
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“Why not go for more? There's new levels, there's other things. There must be things that I'm keeping you hidden or I'm ashamed of that I should share, you know? So I write that every day. And then either that night or if I'm too tired in the morning, I read it again and go, oh, wow, shit, that was a four out of ten. Like that day did not turn out at all like that. And then it's got to do with belief. Really? And I'm new to this, man. My wife's always been into manifestation. And I was like I don't know if that's the way to live life. Like, you know, isn't more to be Open, like in presence and dealing in that stoic way to deal with what's coming. Can we really manifest it?”
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“Happened, so it's yes, it's past tense, it's already happened. There's no, I really hope, I think that I'm going to try, I will like today. My son and I had the best hour together laughing and talking, and we connected on some of the most elemental things and ways we've never connected, that kind of thing it will have And I do that every morning on a text which I send to her because she says, you know, we all need to be accountable to someone. And I'm looking at them now. Relationship goes to new levels of honesty and intimacy. So that's just that kind of thing that Dev and I, who it's the best, really the most successful part of my life. Is my family life, but.”
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“Yeah, and perfect Tommy, right? She goes, Oh, you're perfect Tommy. So, you know, sometimes even when you gave me that compliment at the beginning, when you say, you know, you seem to be, you know, you're always kind to everyone. I'm like, is that real me or is that just perfect Tommy? But she's really made me work on that and to trust myself, do the work that you need to do, don't do an ounce more than you need to do. And I was more To be an overworker, an overwarrier, and miss some of the fun of my life because of it. And I really worked hard on doing that, on film, of letting go on stage Of not letting my own expectations get in the way.”
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“With Lauren's Anna, my coach. She always jokes me. She goes, Oh, hello, perfect Tommy. She's like, you've got this Alterigo, perfect Tommy in there. She gets it from Buckaroo Bonsai. I don't know if you ever saw that 80s movie.”
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“This was, you know, when you're doing a show with 100 people in an arena and your brain goes, go over to that kid. My head was screaming, don't listen to that. Your heart rate through a number. You're two hours into the show. People have already been here for blah, blah, blah. Like, this is, you know, and going with that, that moment was one of the most transformative in the entire thing. And I have no idea why it came to me and I have no idea why I stopped. But I'm really grateful I did.”
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“His father had also died. His father was a famous guitarist. I didn't know any of this in Australia in a famous band. He had died two years before. So the day he got his diagnosis. And by the way, not all this came out on stage. I found a lot of this out afterwards. But something in this kid made the entire audience melt and cry. The kid ended up staying on stage with us for the entire evening. His dream was to one day perform. He grabbed his guitar. I got his guitar up. He sang in front of 20,000 people. He got a standing ovation. Tears are streaming down my face. Everyone, you know, he then went backstage. He joined us for the rest of our time in Sydney. He going backstage with his mum.”
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“I was going on singing a song. I stopped the song. Something in my head said, you've got to grab that kid. So I said, I went up and the kid was dressed in the greatest showman outfit. That's probably what attracted my attention, which is not uncommon, to be honest. But I went and grabbed him. And he came up on stage. And he started getting teary. And I was worried that actually I got like an 11-year-old kid up on stage and it had been overwhelming for him. And so I just sort of brought it down. And then he shared his story. That he had just Was his first outing after recovering from brain surgery? And that the greatest showman was the thing he listened to every single day, the being here. Cut a long story short. I looked out, myself included.”
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“Or I've at least spent the first half of the show scouting the audience and scanning and to see who I'm going to pick, but I don't. I use that as an example of just trusting that in front of 20,000 people in Madison Square Garden, I'm just going to go with my gut on who to pick. And there's a reason for that. And I promise you nine times out of ten, something happens that is just crazy. And maybe it's because of that intention to be open and just to meet the situation as it arises. But I remember being in Sydney and in the middle of the show I'd spotted this kid.”
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“You know, when I perform on stage. I ad lib quite a lot. I go off script. I go to things, I pull people out of the audience. I do stuff like that. I learned that from doing the boy from Oz, where the character did that 10 minutes a night. And this is not a big life-changing moment, but the first thing that came to mind was just last year I was on stage and I never plan. People always think I've either planted someone in the audience because of what comes out, they're either be funny or something will happen.”
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“I mean, that's an obvious example. That's when the universe is going all right, you're an idiot. I've given you a lot of signs. You went off and did the play. You walked into that house. You got that sign. You knew this is where you were meant to be. This is it. And maybe so it's time to move on. You're about to throw it up because a $3,500 and that Parthi had to go down, you're going to kind of falter at the first hurdle. And then the wallop comes to my face. And so I've had really clear moments of that, but I ask every single day, Tim, not ask. I manifest every single day that I will hear those messages. And they're not just about me. They're about my kids. They're about my wife. They're about my friends. They're about purpose. They're about meaning. They're about life and coffee. All of that stuff that the direction I'm meant to go will become clear to me 100%.”
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“Week later saying, Congratulations, you're in. Please make sure you come with the three and a half thousand dollars tuition fee. And it had never dawned on me that it was going to cost anything because when I was young in Australia, secondary education was free. Like all university was free. So I was like, uh oh. And I thought, I've got to go and ask my dad. And I've just graduated from college, and I thought, I can't do that. I literally ripped up. Letter screwed it up, put it in the bin. And I'm not joking. This is to me one of those signs, crazy signs, that are just like a wallop in the face. Check the next day from my grandmother's will. She died three months before for three and a half thousand dollars, the exact dollar amount.”
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“Manifest or make happen. And one thing a consistent theme in that is that I listen to the messages that they come in crazy ways. They come in. Strange Clear, concise ways. Okay, so I've just come full circle. Let me give you an example. I'm going to go back again. In terms of knowing to get into acting, right? Following those examples, I went and studied, sorry, audition for an acting school. And I got in. I got in on the reserve list. So I didn't get on the first time around. This was a one-year course I did before my three-year one. I just snuck in and I was so excited after graduating as a journalist, okay, I'm going to go to acting school for one year. And then I got a letter in the mail.”
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“Then the first question Dev and I will always ask is this good or bad for our family? It's bad, we won't do it. If it's good, we will. So that's a very simple thing, but that's my number one priority. And I just remembered the thing about my dad. I don't think I said it. When I got famous and things were going really well for me, he turned to me inside. He said, don't forget to always check that everything's okay with Deb at every point. And I was like, oh, okay, that's great advice. So anyway, I got off piece. But the decision making, I still ask for that every day. You know, I do a, and I should have mentioned this up front in terms of that first question you asked me in terms of performing and the things you do daily. I do a daily design every day. I create a zip in the past tense of what the day had been. Dreams, it can be crazy, it can be wild. And then at the end of the day, I score it out of 10. I keep myself accountable to what I was trying to do.”
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“Conscious brains strategizing of how to be happy and successful or meaningful in life. There's something elemental and instinctual. And honing that, the people I admire the most really hone that ability in big decisions in their life and in too small day-to-day decisions. So now... I still like you battle with that because I can be dominated by my mind, my brain, pros and cons. Think this through. And I have been working with a life coach Lauren Zander now for four years. And this is one of the biggest things we focus on, really understanding what it is. Here for what it is you want to do, having those priorities very clearly set out so that those turning points in your life. Come clear. And just to add to that, When you Married, or when you make a commitment, a lifelong commitment to someone, and you have kids.”
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“Nightly for, I don't know how long to God. I remember saying, I don't care God what it is you want me to do. If you want me to collect trash, I'll collect trash. If you want me to, I do not care. But please make it clear to me what you want me to do. Please make that clear. I had much more fear of being on the wrong path. I had fear of failing at a path, if that makes sense. That whatever that decision was, whatever that moment of clarity becomes, whatever gets you to that feeling of Eric Liddell on Chariot Spiel, I feel his pleasure when I run. For me, that was always, and I carry it today, even though my feelings about religion are different than what they were when I was younger. The essence is the same, that there is some... Calling, as Joseph Campbell would talk about, follow your bliss. There is some calling that is beyond the”
2020-06-30 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #444: Hugh Jackman on Best Decisions, Daily Routines, The 85% Rule, Favorite Exercises, Mind Training, and Much More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Listening to that I've never been asked this question. I think this is probably the most vexing, most important, vital thing to work out in your life, certainly in my life. And I think about it a lot. To answer the question, what I do now, I think I need to take you back. I've never really said this before publicly, this particular thing I'm going to say, but... I told you, I was brought up in a very religious household. So a lot of the messages I was getting and instructions for life came through the examples of Jesus and through all these characters and the parables in the Bible. And I carry them very close to my heart. I can remember praying.”
2020-06-30 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #444: Hugh Jackman on Best Decisions, Daily Routines, The 85% Rule, Favorite Exercises, Mind Training, and Much More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I really pitched to her the reason I got into acting was I'd seen those tapes from the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Barton tapes, and I'd watch so much of our Trevor Nunn. And to me, that was my dream, was to one day be the Royal Shakespeare Company and working for Trevor Nunn. Like that was my dream. So I think I pitched a very passionately, I owned up to the arrogance. I said, I know this is a really unfair thing to do. And I to this day don't know if she told him that or if they knew. Maybe that's why Trevor, as I was telling that story, was that why Trevor spent an hour with me? He was like, I'm going to convince this guy to do it. I'm not sure. But anyway, yeah, it's a really good question as to why. It was a kindness, but I remember her doing it through gritted teeth. I remember her going, hmm.”
2020-06-30 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #444: Hugh Jackman on Best Decisions, Daily Routines, The 85% Rule, Favorite Exercises, Mind Training, and Much More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's a small industry in Australia. And I just come out and I'd got quite a lot of recognition, I think, for that first musical. And I think she was thinking, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt on this one because I think I'll see him again in something. You know what I mean?”
2020-06-30 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #444: Hugh Jackman on Best Decisions, Daily Routines, The 85% Rule, Favorite Exercises, Mind Training, and Much More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When I went to go and see that show, I was actually sick to my stomach because it was everything I knew was going to be when they pitched it to me. And there I was making some strategic plan in my head. And it was wrong. And from that moment on, I have always followed my gut on stuff, even if it doesn't make sense.”
2020-06-30 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #444: Hugh Jackman on Best Decisions, Daily Routines, The 85% Rule, Favorite Exercises, Mind Training, and Much More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“When you have that gut feeling, go with it. And I haven't always done that, by the way. And you can learn actually not long after that. So after I did... Sunset Boulevard, I doubled down on my commitment to not doing musicals, right? Or after I go home, I'd now done three musicals. And I still couldn't get an audition for a film. And I got an offer to do the boy from Oz, which I went on to do here on Broadway about 15 years ago. And when I heard the pitch for that show, I had that same feeling in my gut. Oh my God, this is going to be amazing. You've got to do it. But my head was saying, you've done three musicals. Stop. When are you going to stop? You've got to stop. You made a commitment. So I turned it down. And when I went to see that show two years later, by the way, I still hadn't got a film audition pretty much.”
2020-06-30 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #444: Hugh Jackman on Best Decisions, Daily Routines, The 85% Rule, Favorite Exercises, Mind Training, and Much More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The most incredible hour I have ever spent. I learned so much, like one hour on an audition. He taught me so much about acting. He heard me sing and then he came and worked with me for 40 minutes. And I remember about halfway through that going, okay, if he gives me the part, I'm going to do it. It doesn't matter to me. If it's a musical or not, I've got to work with this guy. I feel it in my gut. I've got so much to learn from him. And that was a massive turning point. I got the part. I learned an incredible amount from him. He then went on to cast me in Oklahoma, in London. And really working with him gave me the confidence to be able to take on the world stage. I'm not sure I would have had the confidence to do that before him. But I suppose the lesson of that or the turning point of that was”
2020-06-30 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #444: Hugh Jackman on Best Decisions, Daily Routines, The 85% Rule, Favorite Exercises, Mind Training, and Much More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Actually, and I think back is a pretty arrogant thing. I ranked a casting director myself and I said, I need you to do me a favor. And I had met, I knew her. I said, I really want to meet Trevor and I want to audition for him, but I don't want to do the job. She said, what? What do you mean? I said, I really want to meet him, but I've made this decision. I've got to go into acting. But can you just do me a favor? I just want to meet him and I want him to see me act. So I went in. The audition was...”
2020-06-30 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #444: Hugh Jackman on Best Decisions, Daily Routines, The 85% Rule, Favorite Exercises, Mind Training, and Much More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Musical theatre, and I'm just going to concentrate on acting until I've established that. Then maybe I can go back to it. And just as I decided that, my agent Raymond said, Trevis, Sir Trevor Nunn is coming to do Sunset Boulevard in Melbourne. And I said, I said, I really want to meet Sir Trevor Nine. He was a huge hero of mine through drama school. The Royal Shakespeare Company, huge. I really wanted to meet him. That's really who I wanted to work for. I bet it was a musical. And this was another 12 months. And I thought, now it's going to be back-to-back musicals. I'm going to be even more entrenched down this path. You know, it was a one-way street.”
2020-06-30 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #444: Hugh Jackman on Best Decisions, Daily Routines, The 85% Rule, Favorite Exercises, Mind Training, and Much More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I started that getting well known for that. And I remember seeing something like they had a list of people, what do they do for Christmas kind of thing? They had Hugh Ackman, comma singer. And it was up at the theater. Someone put it up in the theater. And I just remember going, uh-oh, I'm being labeled as a singer. I said, I'm an actor. Like, this is going to problem. This is going to affect me. And it did become a problem. I couldn't get an audition for a film because there was, I don't know about the rest of the world, but in Australia a kind of snobbishness about musical theatre that you weren't an actor, you were a performer, stagehand, you know, jazz hands, and that's not acting. So anyone in musical theater can't act. I couldn't get an audition. It drove me crazy. So I made a choice then to get out, basically. I'm going to get out of theater.”
2020-06-30 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #444: Hugh Jackman on Best Decisions, Daily Routines, The 85% Rule, Favorite Exercises, Mind Training, and Much More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And in my contract, I think I must be the only actor in history. In my contract that said, must get a singing lesson once a week, paid for by the company. So I was a professional. On paper, professional musical theater actor, and I had to go and get singing lessons, which I love, man, because I was singing eight times a week in a show, getting a singing lesson every week. That's really where I learned how to sing. So that year was amazing for me. But this was more of a turning point. After, I remember when I was doing Beauty and the Beast.”
2020-06-30 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #444: Hugh Jackman on Best Decisions, Daily Routines, The 85% Rule, Favorite Exercises, Mind Training, and Much More · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT