I never gave Hugh Jackman a second thought until I saw him hosting the Oscars the other night. Now I've built a shrine to him in my living room, ordered a life-sized doll of him on the internet and changed my daughters' names to Hugh and Jackman. I guess you could say I'm a fan now.
And how could you not love a guy who calls his marriage "a mad love affair," and says of wife Deborah-Lee Furness, "I'm madly in love with her ... more and more each day."
Then, just when I decide I should maybe lay off and stop stalking him, I read what he says about adopting mixed-race children, and I decide to go camp out in front of his house after all.
“When we went first to talk to someone in Los Angeles about adoption, I remember they said, ‘What do you want?’” Jackman recalls. “I said, ‘Well, healthy would be good.’” The official then pointed out that the couple had selected mixed-race on their questionnaire.
“He said, ‘Now, listen. Please don’t, please don’t just tick that because you think it’s the right thing to tick.’ And he said to me, ‘We turn away children every month who are mixed race, because we can’t find families for them.’”
Jackman says the official's answer “didn’t make sense” to him and his wife, who considered their decision a “no-brainer.” Jackman continued, “It was like, where’s the need? The need was obviously mixed race children. And that was it.”
Sigh.
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