A two-year-old chat show interview with Hugh Jackman and his then-co-star and now rumored girlfriend Sutton Foster has resurfaced in which she declared that working with the Australian actor was a “dream come true.”
The pair played the romantic leads in the Broadway show The Music Man from 2021 to 2023, and appeared together on Late Night with Seth Meyers to promote the production during its run.
Watch the video above: Hugh Jackman’s resurfaced interview and rumored ‘love’ with Sutton Foster.
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“The show is so enjoyable, and I’m having the time of my life playing with this guy,” Foster said in a 2022 interview.
Jackman quipped: “You had to say it, but thanks.”
“I did it!” Foster said, “But it feels like — it’s a dream come true. Literally.”
However, the admiration was mutual and both admitted that they were “intimidated” by the prospect of working with each other.
“You’re Hugh Jackman,” Foster told the Australian star.
“And then our names are really big on a giant billboard.
“And I was like, ‘Oh my God, this is going to cost a lot of money when they have to replace me’… I was pretty sure I was going to be fired for several weeks.”
And Jackman had a similar reaction, telling his co-star that he had seen “everything” she was in.
He said of Foster, “This is a six-time Tony nominee, two-time winner.”
“I saw him do Thoroughly Modern Millie when you were four. But I’ve seen everything he’s done. This is amazing.
“And I’m the guy whose first show, Beauty and the Beast, it was in my contract that I had to take singing lessons once a week.”
This rumored relationship was reportedly “no secret” to Jackman’s ex-wife Deborra-Lee Furness, who had “suspicions” about the co-stars.
“When Hugh started working with Sutton Deborra-Lee became suspicious of him,” A The source told DailyMail.com,
“Their relationship is no secret to him.”
The source added that Furness, who splits from Jackman in 2023, “wants to stay out of this narrative” and would not comment.
“She’s not going to talk about this issue or speak out against Hugh.”
Interested in two year old interview This comes days after it was revealed that Foster had filed for divorce from her screenwriter husband Ted Griffin after 10 years of marriage.
The 49-year-old actress and Griffin married in Santa Barbara in 2014 and adopted their daughter, Emily, in 2017.
Griffin has written Hollywood hits such as Ravenous, Matchstick Men and Ocean’s Eleven.
Rumors about Jackman and Sutton first began circulating in December 2023, a few months after Jackman and Furness split, when In Touch magazine reported that the Wolverine actor was “romanced” with Foster, Who also acted in the TV show Younger.
US outlet page six Multiple sources have since been cited as claiming that Sutton and Jackman, now divorced from their spouses, were “in love”.
“They are 100 percent together and in love, want to spend the rest of their lives together,” an unnamed source told the outlet in October.
The new couple is reportedly trying to keep details of their relationship private.
“They are still together,” says the source.
“They do everything they can to hide it, but it’s common knowledge.”
Jackman and his wife of 27 years, Furness, announced their separation on September 15 last year. A statement said they were separating for “personal growth.”
“We have been blessed to live together for almost three decades as husband and wife in a wonderful, loving marriage. Our journey is now changing and we have decided to part ways to pursue our personal growth,” the Australian stars said in a joint statement. People.
The couple met on the set of the ABC prison drama Corelli in 1995 when Furness was the star and Jackman was a young and rising actor.
