Solène Delinger 2:53 p.m., March 02, 2023

In an interview with "Parisien" on Tuesday February 28, Hugh Jackman, starring in the film "The Son" by Florian Zeller, confided in his health problems.

The actor, who grew up in Australia, once suffered five facial cancers from childhood overexposure to the sun.

If he is cured today, the actor is not completely out of the woods: his doctor assured him that the disease “would come back”. 

Passing through Paris to promote the film 

The Son

, in which he plays the role of Peter, Hugh Jackman gave an exclusive interview to our colleagues from Paris on Tuesday February 28.

The Australian actor indulged in some confidences about his serious skin problems.

"I had five cancers in the face," he said in the columns of the daily.

Hugh Jackman grew up in Australia

“The least dangerous form, fortunately… is the problem of English skin raised in Australia!”, continues Hugh Jackman, who spent his childhood in Australia, a country where the sun can be very strong.

"When I was young, I never put on sunscreen, I got sunburned, I peeled, I got sunburned again in the same place, and so on", remembers the interpreter of Wolverine.

"At the time, we had less reflex to protect ourselves. Except that the consequences of too long exposure to the sun only appear twenty-five years later", underlines Hugh Jackman who is not yet completely fired business.

"I have had nothing for five years, but my doctor assures me that it will come back, even if I now avoid exposing myself", he assures, pessimistic.

"Put on sunscreen"

This isn't the first time Hugh Jackman has publicly spoken about his skin cancer.

The Australian actor has already taken the floor to raise public awareness of the dangers of the sun for the skin.

"I know I'm repeating myself, but I'll probably never stop doing it... Do your skin checks and put on sunscreen," he hammered into a long post shared on social media in August 2021. 

It was in 2013 that Hugh Jackman discovered he had his first skin cancer when an X-Men

make-up artist

spotted an anomaly on his nose.

The actor had to be operated on urgently.

Since then, Hugh Jackman has undergone four more surgeries.

"I am very realistic and it is very likely that I will contract several others, which is not uncommon for an Australian", he already explained in 2015 in the columns of WHO

magazine

.

"The beautiful thing is that all this can be avoided, you just have to do checks".

Australia is the country with one of the strongest predispositions to skin cancer: each year, more than 2,000 Australians die from this disease.