Hugh Jackman talks about challenges while filming The Son

• While filming The Son, Hugh Jackman experienced many highs and lows.
• He discussed how he was going through changes as a parent and a son.
• His father passed away while the movie was being created.

While filming The Son, Hugh Jackman experienced many highs and lows.

On Monday, the actor, 54, discussed how he was going through changes as a parent and a son while working on the movie during an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Jackman acknowledged he “did hug my kids, especially tight, after that” after playing a clip from the moving movie in which his character Peter’s (Jackman) life with his new partner Beth (Vanessa Kirby) changes drastically after learning that their son Nicholas (Zen McGrath) is struggling and missing a lot of schools.

Colbert questioned him on whether these events caused him to reevaluate his duty as a parent differently when he revealed that his father also passed away while the movie was being created.

“I think I’m a different parent now because of it,” Jackman proclaimed.

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He explained, “I think I’m more open to being vulnerable with them saying things like ‘I’m not sure,’ or realizing that sometimes I may be preoccupied by something going on with me — like I’m preoccupied about the opening of The Music Man, for example.”

“And then realizing that they may think they’ve done something and just me not communicating because I’m thinking, ‘I don’t want to burden them with that,’ doesn’t help,” he continued. “So now I find myself saying, ‘hey guys, sorry if I feel distant, I’m really nervous about this thing and if I’ve gone off my head, it’s nothing to do with you.'”

“I think that idea of communicating more — not necessarily just because you’re the father — and you don’t have to know, you don’t have to know what to do or what the best thing is, and it’s okay to say that,” he noted, then joking, “then, of course, they use that and wrap around you a little finger.”

Jackman and Furness have raised their kids privately, rarely posting images of their son and daughter online and attending numerous public occasions without them. But when it comes to expressing how much their family means to them, they don’t hold back.

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“It’s so interesting being a parent, and they’ve both made me smarter than I think I ever could have been on my own,” Furness said of her children during an interview with the media in 2020. “But when you’re a parent, you can’t lie to them or yourself. They will shine a light on every one of your flaws, your Achilles heel, whatever. You’ve got to look at yourself.”

Now that Oscar and Ava are adults, they can talk to their father about challenging topics like mental health. In 2022, Jackman said that his children “are totally fine having these conversations” regarding their mental health. The Son is a film about a family dealing with their teenage son’s depression.

“It was very important that I talk to [Oscar and Ava] about what it was about, what it meant to me and why I was doing it,” Jackman said of the Florian Zeller-directed drama. “When I saw the movie, I took them with me to see it and we had a long conversation. What I find amazing is the generation of 22 to 17-year-olds are totally fine having these conversations.”

The father of two added, “I’m really proud of them for the way they engaged with it.”

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