Hugh Jackman on his fascination with India, films and more...

Your next -- Real Steel -- is yet another sci-fi futuristic film. Has this kind of become your pet genre?
Not really. It just happened that I was approached with the script and I liked it. While it is a futuristic film set in 2020, it is a future that is seemingly accessible to us. I am also a big sports fan, so the robot boxing idea really fascinated me.



Do you miss doing lighter roles?
Not really, because I am not away from them. I have done lighter stuff in the past and will be doing in the future as well.

How much of what we see on screen in movies like X-Men and Real Steel is real and how much is technology-generated?
X-Men is real to a very large extent besides the super futuristic stuff. Real Steel is as real as it can get. Special robots of around 2000 pounds and 8 feet tall were designed for the film. In fact, Steven Spielberg was himself involved in the designing of the robots.