The Australian actor, who earned rave reviews for his hosting of the Tonys, now has the Academy Awards to contend with. It’s a job that’s put Jon Stewart, Chris Rock, Whoopi Goldberg and David Letterman on the firing
line, with only Billy Crystal and Johnny Carson emerging more or less unscathed in the last couple of decades.
But with typical verve – after all, this is the guy who won a Tony for playing song-and-dance man Peter Allen in „The Boy from Oz” – Jackman cracks jokes about the task, telling ABC that one of his distinctions is that he’s the „tallest” Oscar host in recent years.
To CNN’s Brooke Anderson, he was equally at ease. „Ultimately, the way I see it is if I’m not going to have a good time, then how can anyone else have a good time,” he said.
Even if he’s not having a good time, you may not want to get in his way. After all, this is the guy who’s played the fearsome, sharp-clawed Wolverine in the „X-Men” movies and gets a solo turn as the superhero in the forthcoming „X-Men Origins: Wolverine.”
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