Julia Gillard and Hugh Jackman this morning.
Garry Maddox, The Sydney Morning Herald, reports
As he prepares to shoot a new comic book movie in Sydney, Hugh
Jackman has joined the movie world's dismay over the Colorado shootings during
a screening of The Dark
Knight Rises.
"All I can echo is just the sorrow I feel for the families,
for the community, for everybody," he said from the set of The Wolverine. "It's
an issue that goes obviously way beyond acting, beyond film, beyond anything
like that.
"This is just a tragedy on a level that we have experienced
in Australia many years ago, in Tasmania, and it's just devestating."
Jackman was talking at Fox Studios during a visit by the prime
minister, Julia Gillard, to the set of the superhero movie that starts shooting
in a week.
Ms Gillard said the federal government had contributed $12.8
million to secure the shoot for Australia and create more than 2000 jobs. The
movie had been scheduled to shoot in Japan until last year's earthquake and
tsunami.
Jackman, who previously shot X-Men
Origins: Wolverine in Sydney, said the new movie would bring more
than $80 million to the country and keep industry skills at a world class
level.
He described Wolverine, the character he first played in 2000's X-Men as a late
replacement for Dougray Scott, as the backbone of his career.
"I still love the character," he said. "I had no
choice at the time - I was going to take anything that came along - but I
happen to have walked into probably the most interesting and complex of the
superhero characters."
Director James Mangold, whose movies have included Kate & Leopold with
Jackman and Walk The Line,
said the movie was based on a series of comic books about Wolverine's journey
to Japan.
"It speaks to the incredible craftsmanship [here] that we can
make so much of Japan - feudal Japan, urban Japan, sets - all here on our
soundstages in Australia," he said.
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