I know we’ve all had our share of giggles about Robert Pattinson and his longstanding dream of a music career. Ha, ha! But stop your laughing and dry your eyes, because Hugh Jackman will have you know that Young Mister Pattinson has a “really soulful, very pure, very beautiful singing voice.”
Jackman signed up to work with Pattinson on Unbound Captives way back in 2009, but they first met in 2008 on a flight to Tokyo. The story about Jackman, Pattinson, and Australia director Baz Luhrmann all hitting a Japanese “karaoke box” together might be old news, sure, but this is the first time Jackman has talked about the experience.
Revelations abound!
1) Robert Pattinson has a beautiful singing voice!
2) HUGH JACKMAN WORE A SCHOOLGIRL COSTUME. (Teehee!)
From MTV’s Rough Cut, with perennially easygoing interviewer Josh Horowitz:
Josh: “Have you ever met Rob? Or have you—”
Hugh: “Yeah! I actually did karaoke with Rob.”
Josh: “What?”
Hugh: “Right? That’s random, isn’t it.”
Josh: “What did you guys sing?”
Hugh: “We were on our way to Japan, and he was promoting, and I didn’t talk to him at all on the flight, because it’s just this really tall guy with a hood over his head.” [slumps in chair]
Josh: [giggling] “That’s Rob!”
Hugh: “Literally, the whole—and every time I’d go to the bathroom, I was like, ‘Man, that guy takes some serious sleeping pills,’ because—” [curls more deeply into armchair] “—this was him, literally the whole time. And then when we got out and I was like, ‘Aw, hey man, how you doin’,’ he’s, ‘Hey, buddy.’ And Baz Luhrmann was also on the flight, because we were promoting Australia. And so Baz loves to do karaoke, so we went out to this Japanese karaoke bar, and we invited Rob, and he came. And uh, it was so much fun, ’cause he, that, man, he’s got a voice!”
Josh: “Yeah, well, he’s a singer! Yeah, yeah, yeah.”
Hugh: “Really soulful, very pure, very beautiful voice! I was kind of like, Damn! And he’s cool as well. He didn’t have the hoodie on, but he just sat back. And—I don’t know if you’ve been to a Japanese, like a real Japanese—OK, so, the first thing you do is, you get inside this room. The doors are closed, and there’s like eight of you, so it feels a little weird.”
Josh: “Sure.”
Hugh: “And then all a sudden they open, and they bring in these boxes, which is basically dress-ups?”
Josh: “Right.”
Hugh: “So they bring in boxes of dress-ups, and we’re like, OK. So first thing you do, you rip it [open], and it’s all, like, girl’s clothes. So it’s like girl’s nurse’s uniform, girl’s school uniforms…”
Josh: “Please tell me you guys dressed as nurses and sang together.”
Hugh: “I was a schoolgirl. Baz got dressed up—he was first in there—and Rob did not.”
Josh: [vocalizes disappointment]
Hugh: “He’s just, he was too cool for school. He just sat back, I think he was watching us like, ‘Man, these guys are really freaky.’ And then they gave the mic to him, and he sang very well. I don’t even remember what it was he was singing, but I remember thinking what a great voice he had. There’s a random story for you.”
Josh: “That’s amazing. All I ask is that next time you bring me along.”
Hugh: “OK!”
And there you have it. Also: the talented Mr. Jackman led his spanking new movie, Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots, to box-office glory this weekend.
TWO SIDES!!