Tom Hooper: ‘There would have been no Les Miserables without Jackman’

The filmmaker recruited an all-star line-up to bring his vision to life, with Russell Crowe as police inspector Javert and Anne Hathaway as tragic prostitute Fantine, but Hooper admits Jackman was key to the whole project – and insists there would be no movie without the Australian as Jean Valjean.

He tells Vogue magazine, “I would not have made this film at all if Hugh Jackman did not exist – there was no second choice.

“The power of the man when you’re standing next to him and he’s singing those songs – it just sort of knocks you sideways.”

Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne, Helena Bonham Carter and Sacha Baron Cohen are also part of the cast.