New York: Hugh Jackman sees himself as a bit of an adventurer. The Australian actor provides the voice of Sir Lionel Frost in new animated adventure 'Missing Link' and says that like the dashing, globe-trotting explorer, he "was obsessed with Sasquatch as a kid."
"Bigfoot, we used to call it. All of them, the Loch Ness monster," he said. "There's not a kid who's not like, 'I know it's real. I know there's something out there.'"
Jackman was speaking at the film's New York premiere on April 7, where he was joined on the red carpet by co-stars Zoe Saldana, Timothy Olyphant and writer-director Chris Butler.
The stop-motion animation is produced by Laika, the company behind 'Coraline', 'ParaNorman," "The Boxtrolls" and "Kubo and the Two Strings," all of which were nominated for Academy Awards.
Jackman's Frost character, an investigator of myths and monsters, travels to America's Northwest to discover the world's most legendary creature, the Missing Link.
Zach Galifianakis plays Mr. Link, the last of his kind, who persuades Frost to take him on a daring quest to seek out his distant relatives in the fabled valley of Shangri-La.
The pair team up with Adelina Fortnight (Zoe Saldana), who has the only known map to their secret destination, for their perilous journey.
"I saw my mom, my grandma, my sisters in (Adelina)," said Saldana. "I wish I didn't see that much about myself in her because now that I have three boys, I want to be the fun one but I'm not. I'm more like an Adelina and my husband is the fun one."
"Missing Link" also stars Stephen Fry, David Walliams, Emma Thompson and Matt Lucas and is released in U.S. theaters April 12.
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