VIDEO: Hugh Jackman Attends New York Premiere of New Sci-fi Thriller CHAPPIE

Hugh Jackman was in attendance at last night's New York premiere of his new sci-fi action thriller CHAPPIE. The actored spoke with ET's Jason Dundas about his affinity for social media and why he appears to have a drink in his hand in every Instagram photo he posts.

"Well, come on. I'm Australian," joked the actor, who went on to explain, "Every country you go to you have to have something very particular to drink that's local," Jackman explained. "It's part of traveling."

In the film about a smart robot named Chappie, the Tony Award-winner plays a corrupt law enforcement officer, Vincent, who is attempting to construct his own destructive robt with the sole purpose of taking out Chappie."I loved the way that Neill has given a traditional, out-and-out villainous role a very valid argument against artificial intelligence," Jackman says.

Jackman is an Academy Award®-nominated, Golden Globe® and Tony Award®-winning actor. The Australian native was most recently on Broadway in THE RIVER. Prior to that he starred in his one-man show Hugh Jackman - Back on Broadway in the fall of 2011.

Jackman's dedication to the Broadway community was feted at the 2012 Tony Awards, where he received a Special Award from the Tony Awards Administration Committee, recognizing his accomplishments as a performer and humanitarian. He previously starred on Broadway in Keith Huff's play, A Steady Rain, opposite Daniel Craig, and as 1970s singer-songwriter Peter Allen in The Boy From Oz, for which he received the 2004 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical as well as Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critics Circle and Theatre World Awards.

Additional theater: Carousel at Carnegie Hall, Oklahoma! at the National Theatre in London (Olivier nomination), Sunset Boulevard (MO Award, Australia's Tony Award) and Disney's Beauty and the Beast (MO Award nomination). Jackman made his first major U.S. film appearance as Wolverine in the first installment of the X-Men series, a role he reprised in the enormously successfulX2 and X-Men: The Last Stand in 2006, as well as X-Men Origins: Wolverine in 2009 and in The Wolverine in 2013. Jackman reunited with the X-men team for X-Men: Days of Future Past.

Source: ET

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