Hugh Jackman on adopting mixed-raced kids: Thats where 'the biggest need was'

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Hugh Jackman is taking a break from playing his action character Wolverine, to star as a hero of another sort in the crime drama Prisoners.

The film which received critical acclaim earlier this month after being screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, tells the story of two families searching for their daughters after they were kidnapped on Thanksgiving in a small town.

Jackman explores a range of emotions while playing his character in Prisoners, and confessed that it was important for him to not to think of his own kids while playing his role.

“There’s ways of tapping into emotion without necessarily imagining your own kids,” Jackman told theGrio. “I feel it can be a dangerous path to go down as an actor. I’ve seen it have bad effects on other actors in the past.”

Jackman and his wife Deborra-Lee Furness have two adopted children, Oscar Maxmillian and Ava Eliot. The 44-year-old actor opened up about his “deliberate” decision to adopt mixed-race children.

“When we found out about adoption, the biggest need was in the mixed race. That’s where the need was. So it just felt like, ‘well, that’s what we’ll do.’ I didn’t think it took much more thought than that,” Jackman said. “We had always planned and hoped to have biological children as well as adopted children both. Turned out we didn’t have biological children… with the adopted we always felt that where the need is, is where we’ll go.”

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