Jackman excelled at playing a man who lost everything and sank to impossibly dark depths to claim revenge.
Adapted Christopher Priest's novel, this tale of two 19th Century magicians locked in a bitter rivalry only gets better with repeat viewings as its secrets reveal themselves. Hugh Jackman played the showy, flashy Robert Angier, while Christian Bale starred opposite as the less successful but more technically skilled Alfred Borden. Jackman excelled at playing a man who lost everything and sank to impossibly dark depths to claim revenge. Compared to Jackman's flashy, suave Angier, Bale played Borden as more a working class magician, boasting unbeatable technical skill but lacking his rival's practiced charm and stage presence.