Transcript

The Advice Hugh Jackman Gave Liev Schreiber That Transformed His Career · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

0:00
Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Hugh Jackman is a
0:04
Speaker 1: rare breed in the acting what a classically trained theater
0:06
Speaker 1: start with a voice and dance moves to carry a
0:08
Speaker 1: Broadway musical. Also built like a mack truck. This guy,
0:11
Speaker 1: which enables him to convincingly play action here was like Wolverine,
0:14
Speaker 1: and his ability to have that balance directly inspired one
0:17
Speaker 1: of his good friends, Leave Schreiber, who recalls the moment
0:20
Speaker 1: Hugh taught him a valuable lesson. He told an audience
0:22
Speaker 1: at the carlobi Very Film Festival. Hugh was this beautiful
0:26
Speaker 1: guy who was working out all the time, discipline, never
0:29
Speaker 1: drank too much, an amazing person. I was like, it
0:31
Speaker 1: can't be real. He's an actor and actors are a mess.
0:34
Speaker 1: But it was real. He asked me why I didn't
0:36
Speaker 1: work out. I thought that actors work out because they
0:38
Speaker 1: can't act. He said, why would you throw away that tool?
0:41
Speaker 1: I knew my body was a tool. I just never
0:43
Speaker 1: knew it had to be muscular. As soon as I
0:44
Speaker 1: started to have this physique, all these jobs came. Eventually,
0:48
Speaker 1: Leave ended up building enough muscle to believably play Wolverine's
0:51
Speaker 1: brother Saber tooth in logan opposite his buddy Hugh. That's
0:56
Speaker 1: direct from Hollywood.