Film sets are constantly amusing because you really are creating something that is so very surreal and I kind of like that.
I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I don't belong anywhere in particular. I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.
I found taking the hits more difficult than giving them... between that hit and that hit I want to get another one in.
I generally find an affinity with a lot of the people I play and I suppose if I didn't feel an affinity for them then they wouldn't be particularly good performances.
I guess I judge my films by how pleased I am with the work I do, so it's kind of on another level. If they do well at the box office, then that's great. Then I'm really pleased about that too.
I think I'm much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. But I think that's something that we all go through at various times of our lives and it was quite a sustained thing with me.
Initially I probably didn't even call it acting, but dressing up or something. As a kid I think you fully imagine the world in which you want to inhabit, so you put some clothes on and just kind of freely imagine this world, and it's a total imaginary world.
It's kind of chased away a few demons for me and, um, it's educated me a little bit more.
To me acting originally became an extension of game playing. Childhood games, and that kinda grew into something else. As I've got older it's changed and it's moved more towards self-understanding about how other people escape into other worlds. It's become me trying to open doors into other people.
We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely.
Hugo appeared in the TV commercial for Gatorade (2003)
Hugo shares the same birthday with actor Heath Ledger.
Hugo currently resides in Sydney with his wife Katrina Greenwood and his two children Holly and Harry.
Hugo has always loved the theatre, and still regularly appears in productions by the Sydney Theatre Company.
After spending his childhood in South Africa and the UK, Hugo moved to Australia in 1976.
Hugo stands tall at six feet, two inches.
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