But you were here are a couple of weeks ago.
It was right before the Christmas break.
You were going back to Australia.
And you were going to have 25 people at your house.
How did that go?
Honestly, I thought, aw, it could be arguments.
It could be this.
It was perfect.
It was fantastic.
We did so much.
We may have killed a couple of them, just from exhaustion.
But anyway--
Uh-huh.
[LAUGHTER]
We like to party in Australia.
But we had a great time.
Oh, that's so good.
It was so good.
How was yours?
It was good.
It was quiet.
It wasn't like that at all.
Really?
We had just a very small, quiet year this year.
Nice.
Yeah.
So you went to the beach, which is good for everybody, really.
Right?
And everybody gets to see you at the beach.
And we're in a good mood.
Thank you.
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You know--
All right.
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Oh, boy.
Every angle, every angle.
It's almost like if you--
I just turned around.
Yeah.
I just kept turning.
[LAUGHTER]
No.
You know, that's a good body at any age.
But to know you're about to turn 50, that's a good body.
Thank you.
Yeah, congratulations.
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Occupational hazard, I'm afraid.
No, you take care of yourself, obviously.
You know, I have a thing with the--
I do.
I have to.
But I have a thing with the paparazzi.
It's weird.
Down in Australia, they'll come to me.
And they all know me at this point.
And I'll say to them--
I say, OK, what do you need, guys?
And one of the main guys there, Shane goes, well,
we need you at the Bondi, shirt off.
I said, all right.
Tomorrow morning, 8 o'clock.
And so they all turn up.
It's embarrassing.
There's like 30 of them.
And they leave me alone.
They leave you alone the rest of the time?
The rest of the time.
That's fantastic.
Yeah.
I figured, now that's a deal.
I'll take it.
Yeah.
That's great.
Yeah.
They should do that here.
They don't do that here.
No, no, no.
It's very civilized down there in that way.
Yeah, wow.
Well, maybe because they all want two weeks off.
Yeah, exactly.
They're like, do it tomorrow.
[LAUGHTER]
Unfortunately for them, the day before, Zac Efron was with me.
We were training at the gym.
And he was there.
Not one person was there.
They didn't know we were there yet.
Oh.
Yeah, I feel bad for them.
Man, now hearing that now, they're furious.
They're going to go to the gym every just waiting.
They're never going to believe me again, right.
And so you are the sexiest, nicest guy--
Ah.
--which is pretty good.
Everyone's a sexy-something in this issue.
Right.
And you're a sexy, nice guy.
[LAUGHTER]
Yeah.
My mom will be happy with that.
It's really great.
My mom and dad will be happy.
I believe someone told me backstage,
I'm one page away from sexiest dog owner.
So I don't know--
[LAUGHTER]
--where this is exactly standing on the list of sexiness.
It's all good.
Well, there was a long time ago, a time when I was on the front.
So I'm getting deeper and deeper into it.
[LAUGHTER]
10 years from now, I don't know what the title is.
You may come all the way back around the cover.
You don't know.
I do know that.
No.
That won't happen.
[LAUGHTER]
You don't.
Let's talk about this movie.
Tell everybody what it's about.
It's a very entertaining movie.
Thank you.
It's got everything that you look for.
The Greatest Showman is about PT Barnum.
And it's really less of a biopic, more a modern day
musical about the birth of show business,
and also about tolerance and acceptance.
And, you know, he had all these oddities, which back in the day
were cast away from society.
And he makes them not only stars, but makes him beloved.
You had the bearded lady, Tom Thumb.
And it's a very exuberant, up-beat--
I promise you, if you go to this movie,
you can take your whole family.
And you will leave happier than when you went in.
Yeah.
That's my promise to you.
And the songs are great.
I think the soundtrack is doing really well.
We are number one.
Yeah.
That's amazing.
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It is amazing.
You and Jack.
Someone just told me, like, not even
Hamilton got-- like when they said you're number one, I said,
you mean like of the movie-musicals starring Hugh
Jackman number one list?
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And they said no, like, ahead of Eminem, and Ed Sheeran, and all
of that.
So it's been amazing.
It's a little bit of a dream of mine--
Really.
--which I didn't know I had a dream--
is to have one of those--
you know, like some record--
The frame, yeah.
--in a frame.
Platinum.
I don't care.
Yeah, it could be tin.
I'll take tin.
OK.
[LAUGHTER]
I don't care what it is, but just something.
That would be great.
Oh, darn.
I should have made you one.
Yeah.
If I would have known that was your dream,
I would have made you one.
If you're making me one--
Yeah.
--a little tip.
Corey-- your producer, Corey--
Yes.
--who I know very well--
so well that I call him Tim every time I see him.
But anyway--
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--that's Corey's dream too.
So if you're making one, just make a little second one
for him.
Why hasn't Corey told us that?
That's very interesting.
[LAUGHTER]
I don't know why.
But now I've told the entire nation.
All right.
Well, good.
So Corey's next holidays, he's about to get
700 of these things.
Now do you think that possibly you'll
want to go on the road with Zac and do this kind of--
Yeah.
This would be a great road tour.
I totally agree.
Yeah.
I actually could see it as an arena show, like in the round,
or have a big spectacle.
Yeah.
People love the music.
And I think the show lends itself to a live experience.
And I think to have Keala, who's the bearded lady, to have Zac,
have Zendaya--
so could you just confirm they're in?
Yes.
And then, you know, yeah.
Well, they've just heard it now.
So I think they would be in.
Yeah, Zac and Zendaya are in.
So you'll get phone calls.
Can you call their agent though?
Will you make sure that--
you can do that.
You're more powerful.
I will do that.
Yes, yes.
I'm part of deep state.
I can do anything I want.
[LAUGHTER]
But I would love to do that.
All right, all right.
I'd love to bring it to a live audience.
Yeah.
I think it's a great idea.
You've been married for how long?
21 years.
21 years, which is a wonderful amount of time.
Thank you, yeah.
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It seems like she loves you and supports you.
I hope so, yeah.
[LAUGHTER]
And yet, I heard that when she watches your movies,
she actually falls asleep.
Every time.
[LAUGHTER]
Like, has this--
Every time.
--always been going on, or is this just deeper
into the relationship?
Always.
And to be fair, it's with anybody's movies.
So it's not just me.
OK, all right.
I do remember a producer poking me at one point during a movie
and saying, wake your wife up.
It's embarrassing.
[LAUGHTER]
But the best story I have--
I mean she's fallen asleep at a Rolling Stones concert.
Three songs in, she's out.
[LAUGHTER]
But my favorite Deb story of falling asleep,
we were seeing the opening night of Chess in Melbourne.
Deb is asleep 15 minutes in.
It's usually seven minutes.
I can, you know-- like clockwork.
So about 15 minutes in, mid-scene--
it's not even a song--
Deb's like this.
And she goes, oh--
[CLAPPING]
[LAUGHTER]
The actors stop.
Everyone stops, because it was so weird.
And then, yeah.
[LAUGHTER]
That's my wife.
Wow.
And you still take her to places.
She doesn't always fall asleep.
I will say to people--
I say, Deb stayed awake the entire time.
Like if anyone understood, that would be on the movie poster.
Deb stayed awake the entire time.
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Wow.
It's the greatest endorsement.
Forget five stars.
That's it.
That is amazing.
But this is something that I found out
that you do at the end of every movie.
You pass out lotto tickets to your crew
at the end of every movie.
End of every week of every movie.
Of every week?
Yeah.
So on the first movie I did, there was 300 crew.
And I'd come from Australia where you have 50 crew,
you bring your own lunch.
Like, no one even gives you a chair to sit on.
So I came.
And a mate visited me.
And he goes, you don't even know that guy's name over there,
do you?
And I said, yeah.
You don't understand.
It's 300 people.
And I thought, this is weird.
So I invented an Aussie tradition, which was not true.
I just thought, at least once a week, I
should at least have a little conversation
with every person on set.
Because I like the team thing.
So I invented this thing of giving a lotto ticket,
because I figured it would be worried
if I just went up and started shaking
people's hands on a Friday.
Yeah.
And then it became a thing.
And all of a sudden, second AD is on a set,
even if I wasn't working, they would
call me to set on a Friday.
[LAUGHTER]
So every Friday, I give a lotto ticket.
Wow.
Yeah.
That makes me look bad.
Yeah.
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Sorry.
You can adopt it.
Sorry, guys.
You can adopt it.
No.
[LAUGHTER]
But I think it's a wonderful thing.
So you're going to do something special today, aren't you?
So I thought, you know, seeing as it's Monday--
because that's going to be your new tradition, right?
Uh-huh.
Seeing as it's Monday, I bought some lotto tickets
for everybody.
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For all of you.
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The Greatest Showman is in theaters now.