Hilariously Hugh pees on stage, and I almost peed myself from laughter after reading his recount of this embarrassing incident, by UK’s Now Magazine – Truly the funniest article I have ever had the pleasure of reading!
While performing in the musical Beauty and the Beast, Jackman was suffering headaches due to dehydration, the actor tells Playboy in its December issue. His solution: Drink a lot of water.
“I’d just gone to the bathroom, but waiting in the wings, I was like, ‘Bloody hell, I need to go again.’ I thought, ‘I’ll be all right,’ ” he says. But it wasn’t all right: While getting ready to sing the last note of his big duet, the star says, “I thought … ‘if I sing this note, I’m going to pee my pants; if I don’t, I’m going to be humiliated.’ The actor in me took over. I was singing, thinking, ‘Wow, I’m peeing my pants.”When I finished, I immediately turned upstage, looked down and couldn’t see anything. I thought, these red tights must be waterproof. I was laughing as if I had gotten away with it. But the audience was looking at me funny. It had seeped through, and my pants were completely wet. The audience could see it.”
Jackman recalls…”Once during The Boy From Oz a woman ran down to the front of the stage while I was doing the show,” he tells the magazine. “She said, ‘Hugh, I’ve always wanted to do this,’ and lifted her top. She had these massive tits. I just pissed myself laughing and said, ‘I’m glad you got that off your chest.’
The Aussie star says growing up Down Under, and getting his acting chops there, has made him stronger – a quality he says many Australian actors share.
He praises Heath Ledger in particular. “He was totally driven by the creative spirit,” a character actor who happened to be unbelievably good-looking and have some leading-man qualities.”