Hugh Jackman Impersonates Conan - CONAN on TBS

My first guest, of course, has starred in numerous films, including Real Steel and the X-Men films. Now you can see him in Hugh Jackman's one-man show back on Broadway at the Broadhurst Theatre. Please welcome Hugh Jackman. Ah, oh my God, that was it. really sir, it's a sweater yes, please tell me that's not how I look oh no, that's horrible, that was terrible out of business right now, sorry, the two minute impersonation was very good, it was very good and horrible for me, uh. You know, thank you so much for being here, it's great, great to have you back, oh, thank you so much, thank you, thank you, it's nice to be nice to be here, you know, I was asking around about the last few days because you were coming. on the show and I keep hearing the same thing over and over again people say you're known as probably the best actor in the business okay bye everyone it's Conan's mask that changed you know what you're doing I mean , uh, that little indiscretion aside, right? there you are known for being incredibly friendly and I wonder how you handle it you are here you are on Broadway you are walking the streets everyone wants your autograph how do you handle photo requests? requests for autographs from which I learned the legend george clooney I saw george clooney at an event once at the waldorf astoria and look at whatever point you think you can be in movies of a certain level the moment george clooney enters you you realize you're not down here and he just got harassed and he has this particular style um uh let me show you straight, yeah, come on, okay, I need you, who am I?

I'm an attractive woman, well who am I in this scenario? It can be you, you are a big george clooney fan yes, I like women, that's okay though, can you be a woman because you always like to be the only one? absolutely fine, I'm george, hey, it's a pleasure to meet you, it's really fantastic, thank you very much and regards, george, thank you. Do you know what happens with the eyes? It is not like this? He gets uncomfortably close, gets in there and never stops moving. You see people going for his phone because they want the autograph, they want a picture and go get it and then he's there and before they get their heads back he's gone and they're happy yeah this is they're paralyzed yeah this is much quicker be polite yeah it looks like it's working um I want to ask you about uh this show

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back on Broadway I'm curious you must be you're doing this big show are there people who come and expect to see Wolverine?

You know what I mean, those big X-Men fans that are coming to the show and thinking yeah, I'm going to have some Wolverine in here and I'm not, I do Wolverine monologues for the first act and I want to be very Sure, I'm kidding, uh, yeah, there's no doubt that some people come and actually last. week, it was obvious to me that some people were pressured because it was the world series, so it's very obvious to tell the guys that they took a bullet and were dragged by their wife and I remember last week it was the Thursday night game. evening. six, that classic game six, so this guy was sitting in the front row and he was kind of polite, he was nice and I made a little joke about baseball and he was there and I said, "you want to know the score, don't you." You and I guess so so I went up on stage and I grabbed the sheet music from him and I said don't worry I'm going to take care of you so during the show I kept getting the sheet music and then I forgot about it for about an hour and I looked at him and he was asleep and I said, hey, he goes, yeah, you want to know the score, he goes, yeah, literally 100 people shouted the score, it's 99 on top of 10 or whatever, it was like No. one is watching my show, no, everyone is there watching, yes, good program, yes, thanks con and

conan

, yes, the same here even those who don't, come on, no, and you know what they are, even those who have the signs that the guy in the mask has. little LCD screen with the mask that's watching Breaking Bad on its uh unless it works underwater no, no, I'll pay you a compliment, you're a fantastic actor, a great performer, but nobody, nobody in the world, goes topless better. primal scream that

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, don't you think it's true?

Nobody you know, the rage you channel when you're topless is incredible, thank you, I've worked very hard on that, actually, for your benefit and for the benefit of everyone watching, we put together, a montage of the primal screams of Hugh Jackman, let's take a look at these like that, come on, it's time to get up, those people in the back don't even know what show they're on later, like we saw a really unusual Wendy Williams show that was crazy. It was very different, she had her science worked out, yeah, you know what I, unlike a lot of people I talked to, was thinking about it today, the variety of things you can do in your career as a performer and you have the dreaming no, I'm serious the different roles that you play and the action and the musical comedy everything seems like you do it all and you did uh the DVD release came out today, yeah, of one of your works, Snowflower and the Secret Fan, which is unusual. project yes, it was a great project to be involved in, it's a Chinese film, so I was able to film in Shanghai.

I play a small role in it, but I have to sing in Chinese because I play like a nightclub owner who just likes to get up. and take them well you want me to do a little bit for you no no that was all that was just for that was a yes no no they weren't that great so this is you singing this is that you had to get ahead to learn I literally took two months to learn this song phonetically. It is very difficult. I think Mandarin is supposed to be the hardest language to master.

So you had to learn a song in Mandarin. Yeah, so it took me like two months. I will never forget this. song while I live do you want to do some? I'd love to hear it yeah thanks guys join us hugh jackman