A January 2010 AP photo of Hugh Jackman.
He's mastered the role of a mutant with metal claws - but
foreign languages are a tall order for Hugh Jackman.
The Australian actor who rose to fame by playing the
superhero Wolverine in the X-Men series is in
Shanghai to shoot scenes for director Wayne Wang's Snow
Flower and the Secret Fan, in which his character breaks
into song - in Chinese.
Jackman, who plays a nightclub owner, joked that his
pronunciation was lost on the movie's ethnic Chinese producer
Wendi Murdoch - the wife of media mogul Rupert Murdoch.
"I sang it and the very first couple of syllables she was
like, 'great,' and then gradually she said like, 'what?'" he
told Associated Press Television News in an interview late
Thursday.
"But I think I got at least one take," Jackman added.
The movie is based on Lisa See's novel by the same name,
which follows the friendship of two women in 1800s China.
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