Hugh Jackman is busy doing the publicity rounds for The Wolverine, and has revealed that while shooting in Japan, his lack of knowledge of local customs got him into a spot of bother when he was at a spa.
He told WENN (via the Toronto Sun) that he had a little confusion over what he should have been doing with a small hand towel he was given when he entered.
“The place is separated male and female and they hand you a towel, a small washcloth and there are eight different types of tubs with heats of different temperatures,” he says.
“I’m getting so hot and I’m using the towel they gave me to dip into the cold water and put it on my head and I was getting very strange looks from everybody. This was at the base of Mount Fuji and I was the only white person there. I thought, ‘Maybe this isn’t cool and I’m not allowed to be there’.
“I was feeling uncomfortable and finally this guy in the tub grunts and points to my head and then grunts and points to my private parts. Finally I realised the towel was meant to be covering my privates and I’d spent about an hour just waltzing around this place with this thing in one hand and a beer in my other hand!”
To be honest, we’re more surprised the locals didn’t keep quiet just so they could have the claim-to-fame of seeing celebrity schlong – but it does act as a warning to us all to be careful what we do with our genitals in foreign countries.