Hugh Jackman: 'I Wet My Pants'

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Hugh Jackman revisited a favorite theatre story of his while on the October 12th episode pf the Rachel Ray Show. The one about how he peed his pants onstage. (It's kind of an old story, but it's a classic, and Jackman tells it well.)

While promoting Real Steel, which is apparently not the Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots movie that we thought it was), Hugh Jackman told Ray about how, during his first-ever musical in 1996, he wet his pants onstage during his first number of the show.

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Jackman thought that his tights were waterproof, and the audience would not notice. They were not, and they did.

This is the perfect storm of actor horror stories: it's got first-show jitters, hypochondria, line-forgetting, and pants-wetting. Four years later, Hugh Jackman would replace Dougray Scott as Wolverine in Bryan Singer's X-Men, creating a character that has entertained audiences for over a decade.