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He said that talking about religion meant nothing, that practising religion through one’s actions meant everything. ‘He said it wasn’t, because religion, in his mind, was about deed rather than word. Pushing himself to the limit: Hugh Jackman said the pain of his regime for the role was a small price to pay for the end result He was an accountant at Price Waterhouse and I used to ask him whether his religion ever impacted on his work, whether it was ever an issue, or a subject for discussion. ‘I would recall conversations Dad and I had about his religious beliefs. ‘I thought about that constantly when I was playing Valjean, I tried to inject as much of Dad’s goodness, and change of life, into the character I was playing. ‘Dad was converted by the Christian evangelist Dr Billy Graham when he was 30 years old, and underwent a life-changing epiphany, too. The incident transforms his life, he becomes a respected town mayor. ‘Valjean steals religious artefacts from a bishop, is caught by the police but then -in an act of supreme kindness - is allowed to keep the artefacts and sell them, when the bishop denies the theft after the police capture Valjean and prepare to put him back in jail. Dad underwent the same kind of life-changing experience that my character undergoes in the film. Without him, I wouldn’t have had an inspiration for my role in Les Miserables. ‘Without him, I wouldn’t be where I am today. Hugh, 44, who was in London for the premiere of the film, which also stars Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway and has been co-produced by Cameron Mackintosh, says he owes so much to his father. And that was it.’Īll star cast: Isabelle Allen pictured as a young Cosette being carried in the arms of Hugh Jackman playing Jean Valjean in Les Miserables The next day a telegram came from England. There was just something about the way she said goodbye . . . I was going to school in the morning, and she must have just washed her hair, because she was wearing a towel round her head. When the marriage broke up, Hugh’s mother, Grace, returned to England with his two sisters, leaving Chris, a Cambridge-trained accountant, to bring up him and his two brothers. Both parents are English-born, but settled in Australia, where Jackman was born. His performance is both a tribute and a thank you to his father Chris, who brought him up after his mother walked out of the family home in Australia when Hugh was just eight years old. Maybe just a little too well…’īut there is more to his grim self-discipline and denial than a simple desire to look convincing in the lead role of a film which is expected to capture a host of Oscar nominations. ‘But the non-consumption of liquids is a very clever bodybuilders’ trick for giving one sunken cheeks and sunken eyes and, boy, did it work. ‘I’d already shed 20 pounds, through exercise and a very lean diet, before I embarked on that 36-hour period in which I drank nothing and ate very little and I knew I was pushing myself and my body to the limit. Dramatic: Hugh Jackman pictured with Anne Hathaway who plays Fantine, a poor mother driven to prostitution, in a scene of the film