Hugh Jackman is fabulous in everything he does, but President? Probably not. 

“A job where half the planet hates you from Day 1? No! I have too thin a skin,” he told gossip columnist Cindy Adams. He can play a legislator very well on-screen, however, which he does in The Front Runner. Hugh plays married senator Garry Hart, who he met before playing. 

“I had to look him in the eye — know what it’s like to be around him. He’s an intellect and sensed I was nervous playing him,” he said. “The media covers politics differently. Even under a microscope, the lens is different. Politicians can’t choose what they will or won’t open up about. Hart thought he could — but he couldn’t.”

He says celebrities don’t throw shade the same. “Matt Damon wouldn’t buy an ad saying ‘Jackman’s movie sucks. Why are we giving American jobs to an Australian? Jackman’s a fraud. I saw him treat his assistant terribly.’ ”

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