♪ ♪ ( applause ). >> dave: my first guest-- listen to this. this guy knows what he's doing. the movies this guy has starred in have made over $4 billion, 4-- ( applause ) and now he's received a best actor nomination for his role in "les miserables." it is available on blu ray, march 22. he's been nominated for an academy award for his role in "les miserables." here he is, hugh jackman, ladies and gentlemen.

>> dave: seriesly, what are you doing? >> i know, it's grubby. i'm not proud of it. i'll be honest. can daniel day-lewis do this? ♪ four score and seven years ago ♪ can he do that? ( applause ) ( laughter ) >> dave: pretty impressive. >> i don't know why i didn't get cast. really. i have no idea. >> dave: you are doing all right, you were in the big blockbuster musical, "les miserables." that's a good look. >> thank you. most of it is real i wasn't prepared to go the whole way. >> dave: the movie, you look

gaunt. you look emaciated. you look like you might have a touch of scurvy. you look like a guy who has been imprisoned all his adult life. >> yeah. >> dave: what was that? is that cgi? >> no, i wish, i wish. we spent a long time preparing, and then my trainer, this guy dave kingsbury, had been a body builder. and he said if you really want to get going-- one thing is you have to be unrecognizable from the beginning of the movie, "so i had to-- the director said to be unrecognizable. he said you want to do that, don't drink liquids for 36 hours. do not try this at home, by the way. you lose 10 pounds in water weight. in all the exrementz of your body. it's horrible, you have a disgusting headache. >> dave: how long can humans exist without water? >> that's a good question.

36 hours, you can-- >> dave: but i would think that closer-- not much more than 36 hours. >> maybe three days, three, four days. >> dave: how did you feel without the water? >> 20 hours into it it was so-- like the headache, i had kind of a contradiction somewhere down there i'm not sure what it was. bad-- bad mood. and we were shooting in london in the ocean in winter. i was really grubby. but it was just 20 hours in, it was unbear-- this would have been embarrass sipping efian 20 hours in. i went for it. >> is it the kind of thing you're in the ocean and wishing you could go home? >> no, i was wishing i could drink the water. ( laughter ). >> did it affect why you were acting? >> yeah, apparently it helped. yeah. so-- ( applause ) >> dave: well, there you go. >> but, actually, we sung live for the movie. and that's the only scene we could not sing live.

i couldn't have done it otherwise. obviously, the singers need water. otherwise you know what happens to your throat. but because of the water in the water tanks, that was the only scene in the whole movie we did later. >> explain this to me because you're an actor and this is a big-deal movie and you're in the water and pulling a ship ashore are and you really have your work cut out for you, and on top of everything else you have to sing right there. that's double the pressure, right? you're going to sing later, you're going to sing now. >> there are two things, yes, there's the pressure because every day you wake up eye would wake up and realize by the end of that day may never sing that song again. we had been preparing for years. so it had the feeling of an opening night every day and the closing night. the other thing is, if you did it the old-fashioned way, lip singhing, for three months you would be lipsyncking, so it was totally freeing. we had a little earpiece.

there was something offset playing an electric piano. >> dave: somebody with a piano-- >> plastic box so we couldn't hear the pedals. >> dave: but you could hear them through your earpiece. >> it's important to have that live so when they called "action" it was totally-- the song was totally in our hands. >> dave: the difference for people who may not know, myself included, if you would go to see a movie musical prior to this what you would be seeing and hearing was music added later. >> generally, you would record it first. you go into a booth, beautiful sound recording booth. you record the song, and then you go on set and they play it over. so are you lip syncing to your own singing. >> dave: in addition to everything else, it is sort of a breakthrough-- >> this has never been done before. you probably couldn't have done it five years ago. and simon, if he doesn't win the oscar on sunday i'll be shocked pause what he has done is herculean.

>> dave: russell crowe is in the movie. >> yes. >> dave: your buddy russell crowe. when he started to sing, did people giggle? that was a problem? ( laughter ) ( applause ) >> oh, my god. >> dave: was there any of that? >> no. >> dave: now, you guys are countrymen, right? >> yes. i own my career toerous crowe. >> dave: in what sense? >> he turned down "wolverine," and he suggest me for it 12 years ago. ( cheers and applause ). >> dave: wow, pretty cool. >> a great mate. he is a great friend. he also turned down the role i played in australia. so i've been coming off the bench for russell my entire career. >> dave: you know, he turned down this show. >> i heard. ( laughter ) ( applause ) >> dave: thank you, russell. tell me about your-- you have a nine-year-old son. >> i have a 12-year-old. you have a nine-year-old son. >> dave: i have a nine-year-old son. ( laughter ) tell me-- give me one story about your 12-year-old. let me hear kind of what i might

have ahead of me. >> well, i don't know about you, like i love sports. i love skiing. a lot of things i love, my wife doesn'share the same-- we have a lot in common but not sports. and i thought i've got a boy. i'm going to the knicks. i'm going skiing. i have a free pass, basically. and he's just not interested in any of it, none of it, absolutely zero. i bribe him to go to a knicks game, everything. however, recently-- >> dave: a lot of people have to be bribed to go to the knicks games. that may not be-- ( laughter ) ( applause ) >> but he loves-- he adorkz as do i, and he was only-- we'd go for long walks. i was in japan shooting "the wolverine" and we had two days off and climbed mount fuji which is a two-day climb. >> what's the elevation? >> in feet, 12,000 feet. >> that's a big deal. >> you stay overnight and have to wake up at 1:30 in the

morning and trek up another five hours. i remember going up a couple of hours in the dark-- we had head lamps-- and they had station where's we could buy water. and they had metallic cylinders, and they said, "mr. jack man--" that's a bad accent. i'm just going to forget that. >> dave: thank you. >> they said that's oxygen tanking. >> dave: at that altitude you probably could use some. >> i wish someone had told me that before! they said a big problem for children. they really get affected more. i'm like it's 3:00 in the morning. we're like 11,000 feet. >> how did he do? >> like a sherpa. i was so proud of him. to do something like that with your 12-year-old. that's something you have to look forward to expumplet finish it up in the middle of the night so you can see the sunrise. >> at the top of the mountain--

it is straight down, so they have a little bed h bench he can sit at and a chicken wire fence to keep you it from falling down. and we were waiting for the sun, and it was 6:00 in the morning, and i was like, "oscar, look at that." he was asleep. i kind of had to carry him down for first half hour. he did not care about the sunrise. >> like we need to sell more ticket tickets to this. let's take a look at the clip. you're in it. russell crowe is in it. >> this? no, if i'm right it's a soliloquy, the. beginning of the musical. i've just been relet'sed from jail, basically given a hard time, nobody would give me a job. finally this kindly man, a bishop, gave me a place to stay and i repay him by stealing his silver, and when he catches me, he lets me off and this song is dealing with the shame.

♪ the night is closing in and i stare into the void . ♪ the story must begi ♪ >> dave: see what i'm talking about? wow. well, i hope you have a nice evening sunday. >> thank you. >> dave: good luck to you. >> thank you. >> dave: my best to your family and your son. >> yours, too. >> dave: thank you very much. hugh jackman, ladies and gentlemen. sunday night is the academy awards. thank you, hugh.

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♪ ♪ ( applause ) . >> dave: i don't know if you people have heard about this, but it is a big, big story in europe, for example, affecting canada and the united states. they are substituting and mixing in sometimes horse meat with ground beef. normally you say who cares? the problem is some of these horses have been injected with drugs for equine performance, and we don't want those in the food chain at large. and it's turned into a huge-- it's a european horse meat scandal is what they're calling it. do we have the tape where we

check in with the european horse meat scandal? there it is right there. see? you thought it was -- >> i see what you mean. >> dave: i'm not kidding around. >> paul: i can see that. >> dave: so let's go now to rubt gee's hello deli and find out more. there it is right there. rupert, how you doing, my friend? >> good, dave. >> dave: everything good good. >> yeah. >> dave: doing a lot of business? >> yes, we are, thanks. >> dave: you get a lot of tourists this time of year, people coming in on spring break, winter break, that sort of thing? >> quite a bit. >> dave: they get a sandwich and their picture taken with you that sort of thing? >> yes. >> dave: rupert, let me ask you a question. you're a man of the world. un what's going on. ( laughter ) has this european horse meat scandal affected your business? because you do a lot of luncheon meates, a lot of deli meates, cold cat. has the european horse meat scandal affected your business?

>> no, because we no longer serve horse meat. >> dave: well, i'm very happy to hear that, rupert. thank you, that's good to hear. >> oh, except for the chili. >> dave: right. ( laughter ) ( applause ) p-rupert jee, ladies and gentlemen. ladies and gentlemen, we'll be right back with zosia mamet ( applause )

>will. >> dave: our next guest is a talented actress who stars on

"girls." you can see this program sunday nights at 9:00 p.m. ladies and gentlemen, welcome the lovely zosia mamet. ♪ ♪ ( applause ) >> dave: how are you? "girls" what a lovely project to be involved in. >> most definitely. >> dave: we had one of your costars on and the producer and creator of the show on also. >> very good. >> dave: how many seasons have you done? >> we're about to start shooting our third in about a month. >> dave: is this your first big-time deal? >> yes, it is. ( laughter ) i have to say yes to that. >> dave: do you worry about job security at this point? >> this is the first time i'm doing-- i'm doing a play right now, and i booked a play last fall, and i knew that we hopefully would get picked up

for a third season so that was the first time in my life i ever knew what i was doing for the next year. >> dave: you know what i'm talking about because there's a show called "downton abby" and people on that show have been dropping like flies. > oh, no. the plague. >> dave: they're killing them off in all manner. >> because lena said the thing about killing me off? >> dave: well, yeah, yeah. do people get killed on your show typically? >> you're going to have to stay tuned. i don't know. >> dave: does that sort of thing worriy you when people are talking about that? >> i found out about that fact. i don't really read press or reviews or anything, and i had just finished my first two show days-- i was completely delirious. and i went to whole foods to get myself dinner, i was sort of, like, sleepwalking around the place, and these two girls were sort of maybe following me. and finally i was at the hot food bar serving myself some sort of, i don't know, weird

rice. and these girls came up to me giggling. and were like, "we love your show." i was like, "thank you so much." looking like luke a dead raccoon. and then they were like, "are you worried about the fact that you might not have a job?" and i was like, "what are you-- what do you mean?" and they said, "because lena dunham said he was going to kill you off." >> dave: you don't need to hear that. > that. >> that's how i found out about that. and i wrote one of our writers and asked if i should be dreaming of elevator shafts. >> dave: did they reassure you? >> they said, we'll get back to you on that." >> dave: let's take that as a vote of confidence. >> and "maybe" is better than a "no." >> dave: i mean, but people on your show aren't getting killed off, are they? >> so far, so good. we're all still kicking. we were a young krowrkdun. >> dave: it seems to me it's not the kind of thing that would

happen t "the girls." >> you never know. >> dave: no, you never do know. you're right about that. >> you really don't. >> dave: you were born in vermont jiefs, yes. > yes. >> we still have a house there expnjt then you moved to los angeles. your father is a playwrite, director, david mamet. >> yes. >> dave: and you moved to california? >> i did. >> dave: at this stage of your life when you have your own career, soledly in professional acting, is that a good thing to have your father be david mamet? i mean, i guess it's a good thing for him to be your father, but i mean in show business. >> we decide we'll keep him for now. it's a double-edged sword, you know. >> dave: really, double edged. >> absolute. >> dave: in what sense? >> i have had a lot of people who-- like, when i started auditions, one of my first

auditions i walked in and the first thing was director said to me was, "you know, i've never liked your father. i just really never cared for his work" and i was like, "oh, okay." why whati do-- i don't know what to do with that. >> dave: how is that supposed to not affect your audition? >> unclear. i don't know. but he felt the need to say it, and i've also had people-- >> dave: what did you do? did you turn on your heels and say, "thanks, good night." >> i should have. i sold my soul and read. >> dave: did you get the gig? >> i don't believe i dno. >> dave: who was that guy? >> i can't remember. >> dave: you know who it was. who was it? >> you want his social security number. >> dave: that was an awful thing to say. >> it was awful. and i also had people who sort of fawned over me because of who my dad was, but it's one of the reasons i love what i do, at the end of the day, if i'm terrible, i'm not going to get the job. so... >> dave: but i didn't like that guy saying that to you.

( laughter ) let's quickly take a look at some photos here. >> oh, dear. >> dave: what's the deal? you don't smile? ( laughter ) there you are at the golden globe awards. >> i don't know what you're talking about. that is a beaming smile in that photograph. >> dave: somebody had just screamed out something about your father. >> i don't know. that girl is brunette. that's not me. ( laughter ). >> dave: nice, subtle, navajo look. ( laughter ). >> i, like, i clearly don't care for pattern. >> dave: and here we have this. now, you're a lovely woman, but the resisting a smile is what? is that controlled by your sympathetic nervous system? what is-- what is that? >> it's genetic. >> dave: genetic, your family doesn't smile either? >> if you point a camera at my father, his face goes like this. and people will say, smile." and he'll say, "i am smiling." all of our family photographs look sort of like the "adams

family." i said i secretly want to be wednesday adams when i grow up. >> dave: you have a lovely smile. >> thank you. >> dave: and it's typical of photographs taken at the turn of the previous century. you see people getting ready to move out of the dustbowl. ( laughter ) and they're all standing there with their dog and nobody is smiling. that's what you-- it wasn't until much later that people thought, oh, you know what? let's put a smile on. >> i'm just reminiscent for that err ang it was just great, wasn't it? listen, are you having ad any time on your show, sunday nightes, hbo. >> yes p-zosia mamet. pleasure meeting you. >> thank you for having me. >> dave: we'll be right back with the ame

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