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Hugh Jackmanis certainly a showman, but one of his onstage jaunts withSarah Jessica Parkerdidn’t exactly go as planned.
In 2004, TheWolverinestar hosted the Tony Awards amid his run as Peter Allen in Broadway’sThe Boy From Oz, and during a performance in character at the ceremony, he pulled Parker up on stage. What he intended to be a bit of fun almost turned into a major wardrobe malfunction, thanks to her strapless dress.
“I really felt for her that night,” Jackman, 54, toldVarietyin a new interview. “As soon as she got up onstage, I could tell those boobs were about to come out.”
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Parker was wearing a ballerina-style dress with a tight bodice, but it was already low cut, and the wrong move on stage could have easily resulted in her exposing herself to the entire audience.
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Before Parker shied away from dancing in her dress, Jackman asked her if she wanted to do something fun for her husband, Matthew Broderick, who was watching from home. He then asks Parker if she’d ever given him a lap dance. Parker stays silent until Jackman replies, “You should!”
The lap dance bit was part of Jackman’s schtick as Allen in the Broadway performances, and Parker was far from the first celebrity who got the question.
“The most fun I ever had was playing Peter Allen,” Jackman toldVariety. “There was, I don’t know, roughly 10 to 12 minutes of every [The Boy From Ozshow] that was ad-libbed. Once I was 50 or 60 shows in, I felt completely free to do whatever the hell I wanted. I was an a–hole at times. I brought upBarbara WaltersandMatt Damon, and made Matt Damon give Barbara Walters a lap dance, which turned intome giving Matt Damon a lap dance. And he didn’t punch me.”
Parker’s Tonys dress may have nearly been an issue for her to dance in but it’s just one in a long line of memorable outfits for theSex and the Citystar. With season two of the show’s spin-off,And Just Like That, currently filming, we’re already getting even more sartorial wins, includinga flight suitand aJW Anderson pigeon-shaped handbagthat costs a cool $890.
source: people.com
