Hugh Jackmans Friends Now All Jealous They Didnt Get Lap Dances From the Actor
On Tuesday, VF Daily had lunch and dinner with the Les Misérables cast. In the afternoon, the Peggy Siegal Company celebrated the film at a luncheon at the Four Seasons Restaurant in New York.
Having lost a lot of weight to play Jean Valjean, Hugh Jackman told us that the Les Misérables set did not include pizza dinners after the cameras went off. There was none of that, although there were a lot of parties at Russell [Crowes]. But basically it was a carb-free event, he told VF Daily over a steak lunch. I had a long time, three or four months to lose the weight, but Anne [Hathaway] had 15 days, so, literally, a bit of apple would come up and she would be excited. It would be the size of a dime, and I would be like, Really?
Jackman, who infamously gave Amanda Seyfried a recent birthday lap dance, said the two went through a very in-depth process playing father and daughter. I basically would keep the discipline, keep her in line, and thats a very demanding job with Amanda. Shes very naughty.
But schmoozing with Jackman, Hathaway, Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne, and director Tom Hooper wasnt even the highlight of the luncheon, which Anna Wintour, Kim Cattrall, and Joel Grey also attended. Peter Cincotti took to the piano, and, with apologies to original Les Misérables producer Cameron Mackintosh and lyricist Herbert Kretzmer, who were both present, delighted the crowd with a rendition of Master of the House from the score.
Then Jackman, the consummate showman, couldnt resist. I wasnt going to sing. I was at the premiere until three oclock in the morning, I had far too many vodkas, and its way too early to be singing, he said. And then broke into The Way You Look Tonight, dedicating it to his wife, Deborra-Lee Furness, who sat front and center. Aw. That should score a few brownie points, he quipped.
Samantha Barks sang Summertime, and the whole cast sang backup when Anne Hathaway did Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.
That evening, the Les Misérables gang joined luminaries like Mike Nichols, Rachel Weisz, Liev Schreiber, and The Prestige director Christopher Nolan when Jackman was honored by the Museum of the Moving Image.
Jackmans X-Men co-star Schreiber told VF Daily that watching him play Peter Allen on Broadway in The Boy from Oz was a revelation. I realized there was a kind of depth to this guy, as an actor, that I didnt know from Kate and Leopold. And he can turn on a pretty zany sense of humor and a quick wit faster than most people I know. Schreiber added that now feels bad that he didnt get his own lap dance.
Hooper recalled one heavy scene in Les Misérables in which Jackman is furious that theres this man who has been courting his daughter. We were shooting with live butterflies. It was Heart Full of Love. And at the end, Cosette runs inside and he tells her off, but then he comes to the gate to look at Eddie, and what he didnt realize was that this unbelievably huge butterfly had attached itself to his hair, and he played the whole scene with this butterfly attached to his head. And we were all pissing ourselves laughing, the director said. Its meant to be very serious. It was hilarious.
When we caught up with Jackman at the gala at Cipriani Wall Street, we wondered whether he ever gets tired, between the premiere the previous night, the luncheon, the museum dinner, plus endless promotional duties. He does, he said, while somehow not looking the least bit fatigued. Makeup, he explained. They just wind me up and send me out.
Past Museum of the Moving Image honorees include Alec Baldwin, Tom Cruise, Clint Eastwood, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Tom Hanks, Al Pacino, Sidney Poitier, Julia Roberts, Martin Scorsese, and Steven Spielberg.
Its a little overwhelming, Jackman told VF Daily. Its kind of all hitting me that Im here. Its truly humbling, because I see that list of all the other honorees, and Im like, Wow. Im a little in shock.
So that was Tuesday.
I have no idea whether she did it on purpose. I know she had every reason to know it would or at least certainly could happen. 
Didn't really like Sasha Cohen's performance at all. Helena was okay but I feel like she's always playing the same character. (Except in King's Speech - loved her in that.)
