Wolverine
star Hugh Jackman shares the love with Sydney's Knox Grammar Year 12 drama
students and head of drama Michael Griffiths. Source:
The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph reports
What do you do when you're a super-famous movie star with a few hours to kill?
If you're Hugh Jackman you visit your old high school and give the next generation of thespians a pre-HSC pep talk.
The Wolverine's headliner, resplendent in full Marvel mutton-chops, made his way to his high school stomping ground at Knox Grammar over the weekend to help motivate the current batch of senior drama students who began their final exams yesterday.
It's understood the class of 2012 put on an impromptu performance for the Aussie superstar and we're told the action hero was "suitably impressed".
"The feedback we received from Hugh was really positive," said a rep for the super-exclusive boys school.
"He watched the performance, which the class composed themselves, and then offered them some advice in the lead-up to their exams."
Confidential hears Jackman, who was the Knox captain back in 1986, also took a wander through the John Williams Hall, the venue where he played the lead role of Henry Higgins in the 1985 Knox production of My Fair Lady.
"He showed great interest in our current dance and drama programs and also the sports that we now have available," said Knox principal John Weeks.
"He also very generously donated his old Knox blazer to the school, which will be housed in our archives."
And spies say Jackman was not alone in his trip down memory lane, with the actor's visit filmed on Saturday by a visiting US TV camera crew.
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