Hugh Jackman has announced that despite wanting to be a dancer when he was a child, he gave up his dreams after his older brother accused him of being gay.The 40-year-old X-Men Origins: Wolverine star said in an interview with Time Out: "In another world, another life, probably growing up in another country, I might have been more of a dancer. In fact I was going down that road when I was about 12.
"I was encouraged to do that, and I remember my brother saying, 'Ah, you poof,' so I gave it up. I dropped it like a hot rock. I didn't have the guts of Billy Elliot at the time!
“I think was about 11 actually, I wasn’t even 100 per cent sure what it [poof] meant but I knew this wasn’t cool. Then later when I was about 18, I remember thinking this is just ridiculous; I enjoyed dancing.”
Jackman recently told Parade magazine: “I'd be happy to go and deny being gay, because I'm not.
"But by denying it, I'm saying there is something shameful about it, and there isn't anything shameful.”
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