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"I'm Australian born and bred so I love the
water. I go into the ocean almost every day, if I can," said
Jackman.
"But I certainly wasn't taking any baths whilst doing this
movie. By the end of the day, I was like ... I'm done ... I've
been in water all day. And I had never done action sequences in
water," he said.
In "Reminiscence," a sci-fi thriller arriving in U.S. theaters
on Friday, Jackman plays a former soldier who runs a business
for people who want to float in sensory deprivation tanks. The
film, which also stars Rebecca Ferguson and Thandiwe Newton, is
set in a war-torn and flooded Miami of the future.
The movie, written and directed by "Westworld" co-creator Lisa
Joy, was conceived with Jackman in mind and his participation
was key to getting the film made.
"I just knew that between his incredible action skills and his
incredible charisma ... he's also this amazing character actor,"
Joy said.
"I didn't have any funding, I didn't have a studio. I was just a
first time director with a script and a dream. I don't know why
Hugh Jackman decided to support me, but he did.
"There's no way it would have come to pass without his support,"
she added.
Daniel Wu, who plays gangster Saint Joe, said that working with
fellow Asian-American Joy was like a breath of fresh air.
"It's rare that you work with a female director, but it's also
even more rare to work with a female Chinese-American director,
and I'm Chinese-American and there's so much unspoken
commonalities that we share," Wu said.
"She understands the Asian-American diaspora and the plight of
representation in the film industry (and) she understands what
she needs to do to sort of help change that."
(Reporting by by Rollo Ross and Jane Ross; Editing by Steve
Orlofsky)
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