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April 2016
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Hollywood Connection
Hugh Jackman on overcoming fear and rejection
Hugh jumped off the highest diving board at school every day for a month to overcome his fear of heights.
"I could hear them all snickering,
all of my mates and all my
classmates. I remember I was
crying and I was like, well, you
try it, you try it up, and every
single one of them went straight
up. I sat at the bottom absolutely
humiliated."
By Janet Nepales
Los Angeles – Hugh Jackman is one of few
actors who has remained down–to–earth
despite earning fame and fortune.
Always a joy to talk to, the Aussie opens
up to any subject you throw at him, as
when we interviewed him in New York for
his latest movie, “Eddie The Eagle,” where
he portrays Bronson Peary. Recall that
the ski jumping coach worked with Eddie
“The Eagle” Edwards (portrayed by Taron
Egerton) who became the first competitor
to represent Great Britain in Olympic ski
jumping.
So how was his first meeting with
Eddie, we asked.
“I met Eddie, first when we were doing
a read through in rehearsal and then he
came down on set,” he disclosed. “I was
very struck by how happy-go-lucky he
was. He was very relaxed and he seemed
happy to be there. To be honest, from my
perspective, he looked a little bored by the
speed of the (filmmaking) process. As we
were chatting at the bottom of the base of
the ski jump, he just kept looking up and
he couldn’t wait for the lunch hour so he
could just go and do a jump.”
We asked Hugh if it was true that he
used to jump off a roof when he was a kid
pretending to be a jumper himself.
“A mate of mine had a balcony that
went into the pool and I remember us
doing a bit of flopping and we used to do
a set up like couches,” he revealed. “For
us, ski jumping was a sport that no one in
Australia did and to this day I don’t know if
we even have a ski jump there. So, it was
a very foreign sport for a country whe &P