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Hugh Jackman may play a fearless drover in Australia, but in real life there’s one thing that always breaks his tough guy veneer: his love for his eight-year-old son Oscar and three-year-old daughter Ava.
“Frightening how in love with them you are. It’s hard to go away, hard to do things like this. You have those little flashes of them jumping into a road and you stop breathing.”
Hugh credits the “unconditional love” of his wife Deborra-Lee Furness and their two children with his success, adding that all the awards and accolades mean nothing without them.
“If your career is more important than them, you’re going to have hell,” he explained to Men’s Journal. “To feel at the end of the day that you haven’t done everything you could for your kids – none of it’s worth it.”
The gorgeous star adds that Oscar and Ava help him to keep it real.
“Everything is exposed with kids. There’s no artifice, because they see you for exactly what you are. You can’t pretend. Actors can fool people about the kind of person they are. You can wear whatever mask you want to put on. But it doesn’t work with kids, you know?…You see things get out of whack, out of balance, because they just mirror it back to you.”
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