Hugh Jackman is So Committed to Entertaining That He Spent the Weekend in Iowa

His agent’s father renovated a historic theater in Iowa Falls, and Jackman couldn’t resist showing up to sing

Nobody’s more committed to singing for his supper than Hugh Jackman, but the “Prisoners” star’s global charm offensive took an extreme turn this weekend when he showed up in the exotic, hard-to-reach location of … Iowa Falls, Iowa.

And like, spent a bunch of time there. With his wife and kids even.

“I’ve never had my family with me on one of these. But it felt right here,” Jackman said, according to the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.

Also read: Hugh Jackman Thriller ‘Prisoners’ Surges at Saturday Box Office for $21M Weekend

Clan Jackman was deep in far-flung flyover Saturday for the reopening of the historic Metropolitan Theater, which agent Patrick Whitesell‘s father has rescued from oblivion.

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