Baz Luhrmann doesn't bother to give Hugh Jackman's character a name in his new, unabashedly old-fashioned romantic epic, "Australia." Then again, the man the "X-Men" star plays doesn't really need one. His dramatic entrances — whether on horseback, through a crowded bar or wearing the kind of white tux only a select few can pull off — tell it all. This guy is a hero cut from the same cloth of Bogart and Gable (indeed "The African Queen" and "Gone With the Wind" are just two of the films "Australia" recalls).
In Luhrmann's latest, Jackman and Nicole Kidman play a seemingly mismatched pair whose love affair plays out against the huge backdrop of a real-life World War II sneak attack that decimated the town of Darwin in 1942.
MTV News caught up with Jackman just hours after he was anointed the "Sexiest Man Alive" by People magazine. We took the opportunity to grill him about that weighty responsibility, whether he's been bothered by rumors about his sexuality and where he wants to send Wolverine on the antihero's next adventure.
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