Hugh Jackman On His & Wife's Decision To Adopt After Struggling With Miscarriages | PeopleTV

I believe in life and I want to tell my kids that your personality is interesting. It, in some ways, very much defines you. The color of your skin, whether you're a male, whether you're a female, it's not who you really are. There was a period, it must have been around the 90s, so you suddenly were playing Curly in Oklahoma on the West End. While you were doing that you got Wolverine, one of the biggest franchises in Hollywood. You and Deb were trying to have kids and made the decision to adopt. All during that two-year time. It was a wild time. We always wanted to adopt. I don't know how I came up. Deb and I were always like, we want to have kids. Because of our age, we started straight away when we were together. But we were always going to adopt as well. We struggled, a couple of miscarriages, IVF. It was not easy. It was difficult, obviously, particularly on Deb. I remember saying to her, I said, we're always going to adopt. Let's just adopt now. You knew you wanted to form, when you decided to adopt, you wanted a multiracial family. Why was that? Our motivation behind adopting was, where is the need? We just knew from talking with people in that space when we were looking around, that the biggest need is in mixed-race kids. A lot of people go into wanting, but it's really important for them, for the kid to look like them. Honestly, for Deb and I, that just never even was an issue. What really defines you is beneath all that. It doesn't matter what sexual persuasion you have. It doesn't matter what job you do. It doesn't matter if your hair is straight or curly, if you're tall or short, man or woman, what race you are. What defines you as a human is underneath all that. What are your favorite memories of a day with Oscar and Ava? Oscar and Ava are really into different things. Naturally, their interests are very, very different. With Oscar, it's all outdoor. When I'm hiking, camping, fire on the beach, roasting marshmallows out in the woods, fishing, that kind of thing with him is when I see him at his most relaxed. He's just a born nature kid. His knowledge is unbelievable. That is when I'm happiest with him. Ava, we both love music. We both love dance. Just recently, I've been to four concerts with her. She's now at that age. When I go to a concert with her and the two of us stand there, and literally, I turn somehow into a 12-year-old, and the two of us, it's just two 12-year-olds. Heaven. What was the last concert you went to? Ed Sheeran. Oh, really? Yep. We went to see Ed Sheeran. It was great. Totally. Ava and I knew every word of every song.