Hugh Jackman may be one of the world's most recognizable stars, but often keeps his personal life under wraps, especially in the wake of his separation.
The 55-year-old announced last year that he and wife of 27 years Deborra-Lee Furness were getting a divorce, and he's since focused more on his professional endeavors.
In a new conversation with People, where he and co-star and close friend Ryan Reynolds interviewed each other, they each shared some insight into their personal lives.
While discussing their years-long friendship, their evolving careers, and being part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe together, they also bonded over their shared status as immigrants.
Ryan is a Canadian actor, while Hugh is Australian, and both expressed how important it was for them to imbibe feelings of patriotism for their home countries.
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The star asked Hugh what he missed most about Australia, and he reminisced: "Definitely the people. My family, I don't see my brothers who live there, nearly enough, my best mates. I miss the food, I miss the ocean."
Ryan responded: "I find Canada to be incredibly restorative to me. I don't really hide the fact that Canada's just so ingrained in my DNA. I mean, the country seems like an additional parent to me." He emphasized that he would've probably been "eaten alive by show business early in my career" had he not experienced a Canadian upbringing.
The actor added that it was important for him that his two children with Deborra-Lee, 24-year-old Oscar and 18-year-old Ava, also felt part Australian. "And I'm really proud of that."
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"I think if you ask them, they'll say, 'Oh I'm Australian. I'm American too, but I'm Australian,'" he shared, and Ryan, a dad-of-four with Blake Lively, affirmed that he felt the same and so did his kids.
Ryan and Blake share daughters Betty, four, Inez, seven, and James, nine, plus a fourth child whose name and gender they have not yet revealed, born in late 2022.
"My kids are very much [the same], they have their Canadian passports as well and they feel a real connection to that, it's a point of pride of theirs. They've also spent huge amounts of their formative years in Canada, and particularly Vancouver, we shot and over there."
"They love being from Canada, they tell people, 'Oh, I'm half-Canadian, half-American.'"
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In a previous interview with People, Deborra-Lee revealed that Oscar and Ava, who were adopted by the former couple, both had different cultural roots. "When my son was younger, he found out he was part Bosnian, so we went and got this Croatian/Bosnian cookbook and he was very proud to carry that around when he was seven years old."
"My daughter has a Mexican lineage, so we've been to Mexico," the actress said. "We completely embrace the ancestors and the extended family; they're family to us. And it's in there, even though it's generational. It may be subtle, but it's in there."
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