The Wolverine star, Hugh Jackman, is still madly in love with his wife Deborra-Lee Furness and is happy to be together for 25 years.
Jackman, 51, tells PEOPLE that he and his wife “make time for each other” and they always learn something from one another. He shared his equation with his wife at the launch of Montblanc’s first-ever Smart Headphones MB01.
“We’re always learning and humans change so you have to, even though we’ve been together 25 years, you gotta reset all the time,” he says. “I’m always reeling in how funny she is and how amazing she is and how smart she is. The longer it goes on the better it gets.”
Jackman first met his wife on the Australian TV series Correlli, which Furness, 64, was starring in.
The Greatest Showman actor told PEOPLE earlier that how he met his longtime love and how their relationship initially started.
“My first job out of drama school — it was a massive break for me. I was really scared,” Jackman said about starring on Correlli.
“Deb, she was a big star. I get picked up, and Deb is in the front seat of the car. I’ll never forget. She took off her seatbelt and she turned around and put out her hand and took off her sunglasses and said, ‘Hi, I’m Deborra-lee Furness, nice to meet you.’ I remember thinking, ‘I like this girl.’”
It took another six weeks before he collects the courage to ask her out. After avoiding her for a week, Furness confronted Jackman during a dinner party with friends.
“I invited 20 people over for dinner. She came over and I said, ‘Deb, give me a hand with the dessert.’”
He continued, “She said, ‘I noticed you haven’t talked to me in like a week, what’s going on?’ I said, ‘I got a crush on you. I’ll get over it, I’m sorry.’ She goes, ‘Oh? Because I’ve got a crush on you too.’ I never in a million years thought she reciprocated.”
The couple got married in 1996 and have two children, Oscar, and Ava.
At the event, Jackman also talked to PEOPLE about his recent The Man. The Music. The Show, a tour that ended in Oct 2019.
“It was a dream year,” the Australian actor says reflecting on the journey. “I still pinch myself, I had so much fun.”
“Those audiences were incredible, they exceeded every expectation I’ve ever had,” he continues, adding that he would “100 percent” do it all again.
He described that he is currently in “early rehearsals,” Jackman says, “Sutton Foster and myself have just been in a room for the last two or three weeks just sort of learning the dance and singing and reading the script and getting started on it.”
The Music Man will start performances on Sept. 9 and officially open on Oct. 15.
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