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Hugh Jackman

“When I got the call to do the movie, I was driving my car and I immediately shouted ‘yes!’” says everybody’s favourite everyman Hugh Jackman. “When you get butterflies over a project you just know it’s something you have to pursue.”

This month, he hangs up his civvies and steps out of superhero retirement for big-budget buddy-hero flick Deadpool & Wolverine – and it’s got our Hugh feeling reflective.

“There is always something to learn, there is always something new to do, there’s always a new goal to go for,” Jackman says, describing himself as someone “who always wants to keep moving, trying new things, different challenges, and setting the bar higher and higher”.

More highlights in this edition:

  • Singer Bernard Fanning talks stage fright, stretching and stepping away from Powderfinger in his Letter to My Younger Self.
  • Dust off your Dorothy machines, it’s time to twist again! We chat to Twisters star Glen Powell about his personal connection the original 90s disaster movie.
  • Is it the worst time to be a renter in Australia? Rachel Withers crunches the numbers and hits us with the damning stats. While novelist Nova Weetman pens a piece on the precarious nature of renting in an unforgiving rental market.
  • Buzzcocks’ frontman Steve Diggle reflects on 50 years of rearranging our consciousness – and tells us why the show must go on.

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Olympics

Issue! Issue! Issue! Oi! Oi! Oi! As we cheer on our Olympians and Paralympians in Tokyo, here at The Big Issue we’re also celebrating our very own sporting champions: vendors and Street Soccer players who’ve donned the green and gold on the world stage.

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Cycles of Life
In this edition, we speak to people who’ve taken to two wheels, including Tour de France winner Cadel Evans, actor Samuel Johnson, and several Big Issue vendors, to find out why bikes are back in such a big way.

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Guy Pearce
From Jack Irish to Mare of Easttown, we’re in the midst of a Guy-naissance.

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