Several years before he achieved worldwide fame playing Wolverine in the X-Men movies, Hugh Jackman was performing in various Australian theatre shows. That included playing Gaston in the country’s original stage production of Beauty and the Beast in 1995, adapted from the same-named critically-acclaimed movie released four years prior during the Disney Renaissance era. Unfortunately for Jackman, during one of those performances, he ended up peeing his pants in the middle of playing the chauvinistic villain, and most of it ended up in his boots.
Hugh Jackman talked about this embarrassing moment when The Howard Stern Show’s title host brought it up in their interview that’s part of the actor’s press tour for his 2025 movie release, Song Sung Blue. But as Jackman explained, this came as a result of heeding advice a doctor gave to him:
