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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. by [Belinda Luscombe](https://time.com/author/belinda-luscombe/) Sep 23, 2013 4:00 AM UTC  Larry Busacca / Getty Images by [Belinda Luscombe](https://time.com/author/belinda-luscombe/) Sep 23, 2013 4:00 AM UTC **The upcoming** **_Prisoners_** **is darker than your usual films. Are you risking your Mr. Nice Guy reputation?** The risk for me is constantly being considered Mr. Nice Guy, Mr. Wholesome. Labels are the enemy. I’m particularly drawn to this character, maybe as a parent. I love looking at how people react under almost melodramatically extreme situations. As an actor, that’s the ultimate stretch. **Your character tortures a guy to try to find his kidnapped daughter. Does a similar instinct kick in, say, when photographers follow your family?** With paparazzi, I’m constantly trying to see my kids’ view of the situation — that if I start flipping the bird or throwing punches, how frightening it would be for them. So I’m constantly sitting on it. But am I angry? Yeah. Would I like to handle it differently? Yes. [(VIDEO: Hugh Jackman: My Son Says I’m Not Cool)](https://entertainment.time.com/2013/09/12/hugh-jackman-my-son-says-im-not-cool/) **You play a survivalist. Do you have that mind-set at all? Stockpile anything?** I’m the opposite. I don’t know if it’s being the youngest of five kids, but I’m famously trusting. And I’m a typical actor: someone picks me up in the morning, they give me something to wear, tell me what to say, feed me and send me home. **No jars of Vegemite?** I do have some Vegemite, and some Tim Tams. But does that classify me as a survivalist or just an aesthete? **As this decent, religious guy who tries to do the right thing but when pushed to the edge does the unthinkable, is your character like the U.S.?** I’m not sure if that ever crossed my mind. But when something traumatic happens, that thing which holds you prisoner, that inner fear, comes out. And that fear dictates your behavior. I suppose what exists in the psyche of the human probably exists in the psyche of communities and nations. **What were you afraid of as a kid?** I was afraid of heights. I was afraid of the dark. If I was the first one home, I would not go into the house till someone else was home. I remember we were in New Zealand and I must have been 10, but I was nervous to go down this slide. That’s when I started to realize that fear holds you back. So I went to the school diving board every lunchtime and jumped off the 1-m \[3 ft.\] board, the 3-m \[10 ft.\] board and the 5-m \[16 ft.\] board to get over it. Now I have no fear, which is probably a bad thing. **Recently you tweeted a picture of yourself lifting what looked like 405 lb. Were you showing off?** It was probably a moment of hubris. It just made me laugh when I saw it — I’m going red as we speak. It’s a dead lift — and for my ego, a little heavier than 405. **The school you went to in Sydney was famous for its bagpipes and kilts. Were you a bagpipes-and-kilts guy?** I wasn’t a bagpipe guy, but I was a kilt guy — and had to endure endless ribbing on the train. Every Friday, if you were in the cadets — the school army — you had to wear the kilt. It wasn’t traditional kilt wearing; there was underwear involved. Just to clear that up for everybody. **What made you think you could be both a badass superhero type and a theater darling?** There’s no luxury of genre in Australia — you have to be versatile, or you don’t pay your rent. But I just overheard Oscar, my son who’s 13, telling a friend, “Enough about my dad, all right? The truth is he’s nothing like Wolverine. He’s not cool, he’s not tough, he’s nothing like that.” **You have a coffee company, Laughing Man. Do you ever go to the café and steam milk?** No, I’m bad at it. I’m allowed to take photos with people. I’m allowed to stand behind \[the baristas\]. 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