Hugh Jackman On Living in the Public Eye: I Treat It 'Like I'm at a Party'

As BroadwayWorld previously reported, Hugh Jackman will be polishing his dancing shoes for an all-new stage show set to tour throughout his native Australia later this year, and in a recent interview with the Herald Sun, he spilled the beans on what the show is all about. He told HS: "The story is pretty much about my life, not only biographically, but the things that I love. What guided me was that I wanted to love every single song. I'm going to do songs from shows that I've done that I love; and songs from shows that I've never done but always wanted to do; and dance and tell stories."

He continued: "I'll show videos and photos that people have never seen and people will see a different side of me. Don't worry, it's not going to be a big therapy night, but it's just for people to really know who I am and go, 'Oh yeah, I know who that guy is, I get it'."

On his approach to living in the public eye, he added: "Now, if I'm at party and I'm having a drink, I chat to someone. I don't just put a guard up and say, 'I'm not going to tell you anything'. I'm going to chat. That's sort of who I am and I think that's a very Australian thing - to be a little more casual and to not take everything so seriously. In general, I try not to lose sleep over it. I try not to over-think it. Most of the time I spend worrying about the role and being an actor and the rest of time I try to treat like I'm at a party."

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Produced by Robert Fox for The Dainty Group, the show will launch in Melbourne on November 24th before visiting arenas in Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide. The tour will wrap up on December 15th in Perth.

Jackman is an Academy Award®-nominated, Golden Globe® and Tony Award®-winning actor. The Australian native was most recently on Broadway 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.