Hugh Jackman Denies Gay Rumors
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | February 14, 2013 14:40No topic is off limits for Oscar nominee Hugh Jackman.
In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the actor opens up about dropping weight for “Les Miserables,” the roles he’s turned down, and the rumors that he’s gay.
Jackman, 44, said the gay rumors affect him more than he has previously admitted. It is especially difficult for his wife of 16 years, Deborra-Lee Furness, who, Jackman said, often sees stories online.
“Just recently, it bugs her,” he said. ”She goes, ‘It’s big. It’s everywhere!’ ”
Jackman’s “X-Men” producer, Lauren Shuler Donner, denied the rumors.
“I have seen him with Deborra since the beginning of their trip toHollywood, and I’ve been on five movie sets with him and have never seen him stray, have never seen him eye anyone,” Donner told THR. “I met him when he did ‘Oklahoma!’ [atLondon’s Royal National Theatre in 1999]. He was genuine, hugely talented. He was in love with his wife that day and still is.”
Jackman and Furness, who is 13 years his senior, met on the set of “Correlli,” a prison-set TV series. Jackman recalled how meeting her “was 10 times better than my single life.”
When Jackman began filming “Les Mis,” for which he’s nominated for a Best Actor Oscar, it was the first time he was away from Furness and their two children, Oscar, 12, and Ava, 7, for more than two weeks.
Jackman is up for his first Oscar this year for his role as Jean Valjean in “Les Mis.” The actor crash-dieted for the role and gave up fluids to get the gaunt look of Jean Valjean when he first appears in the film.
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