The One Comfort Food Hugh Jackman (57) Never Gives Up

He has eaten 8,000 calories a day to bulk up for ‘Wolverine’. He has fasted for 16 hours straight and reduced himself to a skeletal frame for ‘Les Misérables’. He has cycled between extremes that would exhaust most professional athletes.

Through every phase, there is exactly one thing that never leaves his routine. And it is something most people make before they are even fully awake.

The Thing That Survives Every Diet

No matter how stripped back the meal plan, Hugh Jackman always has his coffee. Even during the 16:8 intermittent fasting that sculpted his Wolverine physique, coffee was permitted throughout the fasting window because it carries no calories.

He told The Daily Beast: “I’m a full-on caffeine addict.” He then added, pointedly, that every character he has ever played happens to drink the same coffee as Hugh Jackman. He will only go so far for his art.

Why It Goes Deeper Than Habit

For Jackman, coffee is not just a drink. It is identity, culture, and personal cause compressed into a single daily ritual.

He has credited Australia’s post-World War II wave of Italian immigration with making good espresso a cultural fixture in the country long before it became a global trend. An Australian ordering a coffee, he explains, gets a flat white without needing to specify.

The Story That Became a Company

In 2009, Jackman traveled to Ethiopia as a World Vision ambassador and met a farmer named Dukale, who grew high-quality organic coffee but had no access to fair markets that would pay him properly for it. Jackman spent a day working alongside him on the farm and came home unable to let it go.

In 2011, he co-founded Laughing Man Coffee, a fair trade company built to buy directly from farmers like Dukale. He donates 100% of his personal profits to the Laughing Man Foundation, which invests in farming communities, education, and infrastructure.

How He Actually Takes It

He prefers freshly ground beans made in a French press, always keeps a coffee grinder in his kitchen, and leans toward dark, strong roasts. Caffeine within half an hour of waking up is non-negotiable.

The restraint is real: despite once joking about wanting fifteen cups a day, he keeps himself to around two espressos. For a man who counts every calorie when the cameras are rolling, this is the one thing he clearly never negotiates away, and the one habit that somehow turned into a mission to change the lives of people he has never met.