Anglophenia: Cameron Mackintosh Praises Hugh Jackman

British theater impresario Sir Cameron Mackintosh, who was the producer of the original Les Miserables stage musical in London, is clearly a big fans of Hugh Jackman who plays the central role of Jean Valjean in the new film version of the work, Mackintosh says it’s taken more than 25 years to create a movie based on the stage musical because “Hugh Jackman wasn’t old enough to play it before now.”