Hugh Jackman Interview Special

The Empire Film Podcast

Bauer Media

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2017

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Ho-ho-Hugh! We're pretty much finished for Christmas, but before we gorge on mince pies and Die Hard, we decided to pop an pod-treat in your Christmas pod-stocking: a 20-minute chat with the Australian triple-threat and friend-of-the-pod Hugh Jackman. He talks to us about making The Greatest Showman and saying goodbye to Logan.

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0:00.0	Hello pod, I'm Chris Eudon, welcome to a very special Empire podcaster.
0:17.7	Is no regular podcast this week as we're off for Christmas?
0:21.4	Oh yes indeed.
0:22.4	But we couldn't leave an empty slot in your podcast library now, Kuby.
0:26.2	No, we couldn't.
0:27.2	And here as a special pre-Christmas bonus, our Christmas present to you, if you will,
0:32.0	is an interview with a great huge Jackman.
0:33.9	His new movie, The Greatest Showman, is out on Boxing Day and is a Barnum's tourming
0:38.0	musical about how PT Barnum, for it is he founded the most legendary circus this side of
0:43.3	Monty Python's flying.
0:44.3	It starts Jackman, of course, as Barnum, along with Sackaifron, Sendaya, Michelle Williams,
0:50.0	Amber Becker Ferguson.
0:51.0	And it's something of a passion project for the Aussie star who has shepherded this original
0:54.6	musical with original songs to the big screen over the course of several years.
0:59.2	So, what you're about to hear is not a career focused piece, it's an interview that focuses
1:03.2	mainly very tightly on The Greatest Showman in particular the difficulty of writing original
1:07.8	songs for a musical.
1:08.9	But there is some stuff in there about Jackman's wider career in particular Logan, for
1:13.1	he has had a cracking year.
1:14.6	We've had him in the podcast a few times now, he's always fun, he's always engaged, he's
1:19.7	always interesting, and I had an absolute blast with this and hey, you know what?
1:23.6	I hope you guys do too.
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