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whose slightly twisted, creative and free
mind was a perfect fit. So I was in.
JoeWright is an interesting choice as
director…
Yeah. Joe had never done a family
film but he grew up in a family that runs
a puppet theatre, so he understands
that. You can see in all his films –
Hanna
,
Atonement
,
Anna Karenina
,
Pride and
Prejudice
– the visual skill he’s got, and
the sense of play, creativity and, I would
say, eccentricity. I think it was wonderful
to bring that to this fictitious world that is
really a metaphor for a child’s imagination,
and let it run free.
Blackbeard has a great introduction,
with a rendition of Nirvana’s
Smells Like
Teen Spirit
.Was that scripted?
[Laughs] I really pinched myself that day
and thought, ‘Remember this moment;
Hugh Jackman seized the rare opportunity to play a
villain, in a version of Peter Pan unlike any you’ve seen
before. He spoke to Scott Hocking about PAN.
Pan
is an unexpected departure from
previous Peter Pan films, in that it’s an
origin story.What did you think when
you read the script?
HUGH JACKMAN:
It wasn’t what I
expected either. When I heard the idea I
thought it sounded a bit like, ‘we’ve done
Peter Pan a lot, so let’s do an origin story’.
But what I didn’t realise at the time was
that this was a script from the ‘Black List’,
which is the list of the best unproduced
scripts in Hollywood.
The writer, Jason Fuchs, was only 25 at
the time and had this great idea of having
the magic of Neverland and the spirit of
J.M. Barrie’s story, and tying in all the
elements and characters that we know
and love.
I thought it was really smart, and that’s
why it attracted [director] Joe Wright,
HughJackman with Levi Miller
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