Hugh Jackman @ Good Morning America

Hugh Jackman is charting a course from Aussie actor to movie mogul. Hugh, 38, was photographed on a boat in Sydney Harbor for the cover of the November/December 2006 issue of Men’s Vogue. Here are a few choice excerpts from the feature article:

On his mother leaving when he was 8: “I think it’s fair to say that my siblings all felt varying degrees of anger, far more than I did. I always had a connection with my mum. If there’s ever any problem between us, we talk about it, and I think I understood as I got older that she was just not … not well at the time. I remember art drama school, I was always a very happy-go-lucky kind of person, and drama school’s not the place to be happy-go-lucky. You’re meant to be tortured and smoking cigarettes and breaking down in classes. I thought: I’ve got to find some more demons here.”

On filming ‘The Fountain’: “There are times in that movie when I was crying like I don’t remember crying ever before.”

On watching a brain surgery together with the Fountain director Darren Aronofsky: “I don’t remember feeling a fear like that. I thought: I am so not all right with death.”

What he said to Clint Eastwood at a ShowWest convenstion in Las Vegas: “Hi Clint, I’m Hugh Jackman, nice to meet you. Listen, I did a movie called X-Men, I don’t know if you’ve seen it, but many people after seeing that film thought I looked like a younger version of you.”

Looking back on his meet-up with Clint: “I didn’t plan to say any of that. It just came out. And Clint just looked at me and said: ‘You’re holding up the line, kid.’”

Below is the video of Hugh Jackman‘s appearance on Good Morning America, where he eats talks about his new film The Prestige (out today) and chows down on his favorite food — meat pies! More pictures in the gallery…