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"In my head, I was like 'Oh, Brad Pitt turned
down the part, right?'," Jackman joked of his role in the sci-fi
thriller "Reminiscence".
"I said 'yes' before I read the script," the Australian actor
said as he joined his co-stars Rebecca Ferguson and Thandiwe
Newton and the film's writer and director Lisa Joy on a
socially-distanced blue carpet premiere in London on Wednesday
night.
Set in a war-torn and flooded Miami of the future,
"Reminiscence" stars Jackman as hardened veteran Nick Barrister
who, with his business partner Watts (Newton), offers a service
that allows people to relive their memories.
Barrister falls in love with a mysterious client, Mae
(Ferguson), who has a violent past. When she suddenly
disappears, Barrister sets out to discover who she really is.
"Reminiscence" is the feature film debut for Joy who created the
HBO series "Westworld" with her husband Jonathan Nolan.
The filmmaker said she wrote the script while pregnant with her
first child and mourning the loss of her grandfather.
"The world, I think, is full of beauty and also full of some
difficult things that we have to embrace, like climate change
and like rising waters," she said.
"This film attempts to create a portrait of the future that
acknowledges the difficulties we might face, but also
acknowledges the hope that exists for us to band together and
create the kind of world that we'd like to live in."
"Reminiscence" will be released globally from Aug. 18, hitting
cinemas in the United States and Britain on Aug. 20.
(Reporting by Hanna Rantala; Editing by Karishma Singh)
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