-Hey, how are you? -There he is.
-[ Laughs ] -What up?
-Hugh Jackman in the house! I love you, buddy.
How you doing? -Doing great.
Oh, look at all that artwork. Priceless.
-Thank you. I'm getting better. I keep practicing.
Every day, I try a new drawing. -Deb.
-Hi, Deb! So good to see you! -You, too, darling.
It's hilarious watching you with your two kids.
Rar-rar-rar-rar.
-Oh, my gosh. Dude, honestly, I couldn't even write it.
You know, they're just walking over me, literally walk over me.
-Yeah. -You guys just celebrated
your anniversary, didn't you? -Yeah, 24.
-214. -Deb cooked.
-24 years? -Yeah.
-Isn't there a story involving Mick Jagger or something?
-So the first night we sort of started our relationship.
-Had dinner. -When our relationship
kicked off, I was having a dinner party.
We were working together on a TV series,
and I had a dinner party, Deb and 12 others.
And Deb got a phone call over halfway through dinner.
and it was -- Now we're in Melbourne, Australia, okay?
The phone rings. Deb picks it up, and everyone goes quiet.
This is, I mean, we're talking '94,
like, mobile phones were new.
So everyone goes quiet, and Deb's talking.
"Who?" She's like, "Who?"
She goes, "Hang on a sec."
And she says, "Mick Jagger's in a limo with my friend
outside your house and wants to go and party with me, as well."
And I'm like like... -No, it was my girlfriend
waiting to come party with Mick Jagger.
-And I'm like, "You gotta go. Go. Go.
Leave here now." And she goes to the phone.
And she goes, "You can tell Mick that I'm having dinner
with Hugh Jackman, and I'm like, "Aww."
-[ Laughs ] That's a keeper.
-Who no one had ever heard of at that moment in time.
-[ Laughs ] -That's a keeper.
That's cool. Come on.
I love that story. And here you are.
-But the bottom line is I don't even like rock 'n' roll.
So I wasn't such a hard pass. -Oh, my God.
I was -- Part of me was thrilled.
Part of me was like, I think you should have gone.
-[ Laughs ]
-Be a parade in Melbourne. Come on.
-So here we are 24 years later. -Yeah.
-Alright. Here we go now.
Now, me and your husband are going to start baking.
Deb, it was good to see you.
-Can you bake? Of course, you can do everything.
-No, I cannot do everything.
That's you. You can do everything.
But I asked you, you said you're into baking.
So what what are we doing today? -We're gonna do challah.
We're going to do some challah bread.
-Okay. -It's really easy,
but it looks a little impressive
than just baking a loaf of bread.
It's a long process,
so I'm halfway through the process.
I'm slightly ahead of you, I guess.
-No. You know, my friend Stefan over at Loaves & Fishes
gave me some already made dough.
-I'm jealous already. Okay. Yeah.
-So here's the thing. I did not know this.
You can ask people for raw dough,
and they'll give it to you.
-Really? I had no idea either.
-Whoa!
-One of the greatest gifts I was ever given
was a bread machine.
Because I'm not really -- I mean, I get up early,
but I'm not really a morning person.
Don't like the alarm. But when you're woken up
to the smell of fresh bread that's been cooking
because it's been on the timer. Yeah.
-Right. -After 17 years of playing
Wolverine, where bread was literally like,
you know, the Wicked Witch of the West.
-So, what do I do now? I have this. I have this bread.
Break down into thirds,
and, like, roll it.
-Can you see those? -Yeah, yeah, yeah.
-Is that marijuana?
-[ Laughing ]
[ Laughter ] -Cheech. No.
-That's the wrong photo.
-[ Laughing ] -I wrote with flour.
-Alright, here we go.
Alright, so that's one,
two, three, okay.
-Have you got some flour on the surface there?
-Yeah, I got flour there.
You can see I'm holding these guys.
-Oh, man, that's good! Quick.
-Right? And I got these. -Yeah.
And then -- -So,
you got them sort of fanning out.
Yes! Exactly. Pinch together where you're holding
and pinch that together -- -Hey, look, I'm Wolverine.
-[ Laughing ]
-The lamest impression. Okay.
What do you do?
How do you braid them?
Can you show me?
-Have three like that.
No. Have three like that and then, outside one,
fold into the middle of the other two.
-Okay. -Outside one on the left,
fold into the middle.
Whichever one's the outside, you wanna go into the middle.
-Like a nice braid, like Rapunzel.
-That's it, man.
You've braided your kids' hair, haven't you?
No. -Is that good?
-It's good! That's a very creative challah.
And then pinch the ends together.
Like they come into it like they're pinched.
Like see that, how I pinched the ends?
You pinch 'em together. -Okay.
Pinch. -Just hold them together...
round, so it doesn't come apart when you cook.
-Okay. I got that.
-And, by the way, that took me like 20 minutes.
Took you like two. Okay.
One egg. -Watch this.
I'm gonna crack it with one hand. Ready?
-Yeah. Let's see. [ Chuckle ]
-Ready? Watch this.
-Man, impressive.
-Not bad, right? Only a couple shells in there.
No one can see it, though.
-[ Laughing, whisking ]
It's good. Give the bread some crunch.
Alright. -[ Laughs ]
Alright. So what are we making, an egg wash?
-Thicken it up.
And then, this, you're just gonna paint it on
like you're glazing over it.
That's what gives it that kind of shine
and awesomeness. -Aha!
-Yeah. Is your oven preheated? 375°.
-I knew that. I did that.
-[ Laughing ]
-Alright, so just throw it in?
-You're so good. And we're just gonna put it in, man.
25 minutes. -Alright.
That means you gotta talk to me
for a full 25 minutes.
-[ Laughing ] I think you're that easy, man.
Alright. Here we go. [ indistinct ]
-Challah. That's challah.
-I'm baking it right now.
Oh, you know what I wanted to show you?
-What?
-Can you see down here?
-I have... -Oh, man.
You got your taps.
-I got tap shoes.
I figured I'd have to put 'em on for you,
just 'cause you've inspired me and, one day I'm going...
-We're gonna do it, man. -...to tap with you.
Are you ready?
-Hang on. Wait, wait, wait.
[ Laughing ] Wait, wait, wait.
Is that a really good wood floor?
'Cause you're about to literally chew it up.
It's literally you're taking a knife and bashing it.
There you go. -Well, it's almost like --
I'll tell my wife the dog did it or something.
-[ Laughing ] There you go. Yeah.
[ Voices overlapping ]
Blow that thing to China.
So it goes -- Wait. It goes...
-Get your leg out there.
-Alright, that's what I got, so far.
-Pretty good! -I tried for you.
-That's pretty good.
-I've gotta get better at it.
Well, I wanna see you when you come on Broadway in the fall.
-I'd love you to come and see it, man.
I'm so excited. "Music Man" was
the first musical I ever did at high school.
I didn't play the lead.
It was the first, you know,
I was one of the salesmen, salesman number 2 or something,
and I absolutely loved it.
So it's kinda weird, 35 years later,
to be going back to Broadway to do it.
But it's one of my favorite musicals and it's --
-And, now, you're the lead. Now, you're the music man.
-Yeah, I auditioned and it just went really well.
[ Laughter ] It's all good.
Thank God that kid from my high school didn't audition,
because he was so much better than me.
They had that famous bit at the beginning,
which is kind of like a bit of a rap,
♪ He's a music man ♪
♪ He's a what? He's a what? He's a music man ♪
♪ And he sells clarinets to the kids in the town ♪
♪ With the big trombones and the rat-a-tat drums ♪
♪ And the big brass bass, big brass bass ♪
♪ And the piccolo, the piccolo, uniforms, too ♪
♪ With a shiny gold braid on the coat ♪
-[ Clapping ] -♪ And a big red stripe runnin' ♪
♪ Well, I don't know much about bands but I do know ♪
♪ You can't make a living selling big trombones, no, sir ♪
♪ Mandolin picks, perhaps, and, here and there, a Jew's harp ♪
♪ No, the fellow sells bands, boys bands ♪
♪ Don't know how he does it ♪ [ Snaps fingers ]
♪ But he lives like a king and he dallies ♪
♪ And he gathers and he plucks and he shines ♪
♪ When the man dances, certainly, boys, what else? ♪
♪ The piper pays him! Yes, sir! Yes, sir! ♪
♪ When the man dances, certainly, boys, what else? ♪
♪ The piper pays him! ♪
[ Tapping slowly ] ♪ The train is slowing down ♪
♪ Yes, sir ♪ That's it.
-Oh, my gosh! -I remember it.
-Come on! -35 years.
-[ Clapping, tapping ]
-You gotta get tappings [indistinct] for that.
I love it. -Thank you.
-I can't wait for that. It's such a shame,
what's going on with Broadway, too, now,
dealing with all of this stuff.
-You know, it's just reading today.
It's 96,000 jobs,
all associated, just Broadway, alone,
and it's just devastating.
Sixteen shows were due to open and, you know,
I don't know if people understand, but,
when a show opens,
that's probably five years to 10 years of work
and the dream is, one day, you'll be on Broadway.
That's always the pinnacle. So, for those shows,
I just pray that they'll be able to keep
their investors together, keep their casting together
and, you know, when it's safe and when it's ready,
they'll reopen, but,
Broadway is still like a hotbed of New York City,
so I know that, when the city comes back
and when it's safe for everyone, it will come roaring back.
So I'm thrilled that I have a chance
to be part of that, you know?
-Yeah. We'll be stronger than ever.
I want to talk to you about your new HBO film,
"Bad Education," when we come back.
Is that okay? And we'll let this bread cook.
-Yeah. -Alright. We'll be right back
with Hugh Jackman, everybody.
Hey, welcome back, everybody.
We're here with the one and only Hugh Jackman!
-Let's do a little update. Do a little update.
Little update.
Definitely need to clean the glass on that oven.
Hit me, man.
Ogh! Yes!
-Come on. Right? -Come on.
-Look at us, men baking bread!
Welcome back to another episode of "Baking Bread."
[ Laughs ] -Yeah, exactly.
-Talk about -- Let's talk about "Bad Education."
You know, this is a good time to have a movie on HBO
because everyone's at home and we need stuff to watch,
and why not watch one of the greats, Hugh Jackman?
But you got a great cast in this.
-Allison Janney, Ray Romano --
it's just, like, across the board,
just brilliant -- all those brilliant New York actors.
-How's Ray?
-[ Shouting indistinctly ] -I love that man.
He is just the funniest guy you've ever met.
Oh, yes, come to -- are they smelling the bread?
-Yeah, yeah, here we go.
Yeah, someone's coming in. -Smelling the bread?
-[ Shouting indistinctly ]
-Hi, sweetheart. -That's Hugh. Say, "Hi, Hugh."
-Hi. What's your name? -Say, "Hi."
[ Chuckling ] What's your name? -No, I hear it.
I hear it. -Yeah, he heard it.
It's -- It's Frannie.
-Have a look at your daddy's bread and tell me, Frannie,
if you're gonna let him braid your hair.
-Look at this bread that Daddy's making for you.
Don't touch it -- it's really hot.
That cool?
He just taught me how to do it.
-Why? -Why?
Because everyone likes fresh bread.
-Ahhhh!
-That's what guys do when they get together --
they just bake bread together.
-Yeah. Alright. -Hey, Frannie.
-Do you want to go out and play? Go out and play?
-Good to see you. -Yeah.
-Bye. -Bye.
-Oh, man. [ Chuckles ] Alright.
Let's talk about the movie at all.
-Oh, and Allison Janney, man. Oh! It's --
-She's amazing -- Allison Janney.
-She's amazing. It's like a master class.
And she just makes -- it's very hard to get through scenes
without laughing because she's just that good.
I mean, she can like any scene kind of very moving and funny.
And the story we --
our characters are sort of central to the story.
It's based on a true story
from 2004... -Yeah.
-...Roslyn School on Long Island.
It's the biggest theft of public school money
in American history.
And the school was number four in the country,
gone from kind of nowhere to number four.
And I play the superintendent... [ Bell dings ]
...and she's the assistant superintendent,
and we aren't necessarily being in cahoots --
him and a bunch of others ended up taking $12 million.
And it's really a story of how good people,
who dedicate their lives to education and service,
and Frank had a doctorate from Columbia.
You know, he was the best superintendent in the country --
how gradually, bit by bit,
just a small, little, "Oh, you know,
let's charge that Caesar salad to the school.
We're -- You know, it's all teachers together,"
can all of a sudden become $12 million.
-Hugh, thank you for coming on our show again,
'cause we do love you.
But we ask everyone who comes on the show
if they have a charity that they're working with right now
or they want to spotlight. -Yeah.
-And you choose...
-Yeah, I chose The Actors Fund. You know, The Actors Fund --
their name is a little misleading
because they don't just look after actors --
they look after anyone involved in the entertainment business,
from ushers to hairdressers to the crew to --
and not just in theater, but in film.
And they do an incredible job.
And I know many, many people who've reached out to them,
who they just -- you know, that were doing shows.
Now they can't pay their rent.
They -- Some of them are struggling to eat.
You know, when people start,
particularly here, you know, on Broadway,
they're not earning a lot of money.
So they -- they look after people not just in New York,
all across America.
They're doing a brilliant job.
So thanks, man, for letting me...
-That's cool that you're doing that. Thank you, buddy.
And I'm gonna -- just gonna take my bread out now.
Looks like it's getting close. It's not quite done.
-Oh! -Is yours good?
-It's kind of -- I'm going to take it out
because, even if it's not ready,
it's looking impressive.
-[ Laughs ]
[ Oven door opens, closes ]
I mean, come on. -Whoa!
-Where's Frannie? Frannie! -What?!
Holy moly! That looks great! -Right?
-I don't think that's what mine looks like at all,
but let me get mine out.
That's -- That looks pretty good.
Um.
Show me yours, man.
Oh! Good. -Not bad.
-Needs a couple minutes right?
-Yeah, I think another couple more minutes,
but this is the best thing I have ever made, clearly,
in -- in my whole house.
I want everyone to see -- this is awesome.
-[ Laughs ] -Hugh Jackman,
I love you, buddy. -Love you, too, buddy.
-I can't wait to see you in person.
You're the best, best, best buddy.
And stay safe and hug the whole family
and tell them I love them all.
-Jimmy, thanks for doing what you're doing.
We all need it. Love you, man. -Bye-bye.