Hugh Jackman learns to gut a fish for Broadway play

Before Hugh Jackman could appear in his current Broadway play, The River, he had to learn his lines, dig deep into his character and do something he's never done before: gut a fish.

His character is a fisherman who in one scene pulls out a real 3-pound sea trout, cuts it open with a fearsome-looking knife, removes the internal organs, chops a fennel bulb, slips lemon slices into the skin and seasons the flesh before popping the dish in a fake oven.

It's a mesmerizing scene and Jackman - a man who plays a sharp-clawed Wolverine in the movies - seems completely at ease as he unhurriedly prepares the fish like a Food Network veteran.