Hugh Jackman on Les Miz (and His Javert Past) -- Vulture by Kyle Buchanan

Hugh Jackman is best known as the action star of several X-Men movies, but his affinity for musical theater is so well-known " he won a Tony for The Boy From Oz and had his dichotomy of talents spoofed in a recurring Saturday Night Live sketch " that it's a surprise he'd never done a movie musical before Tom Hooper's splashy film version of Les Misérables. Still, holding out to play Jean Valjean was probably worth t…

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