The role Brad Pitt walked out on and almost landed him in court: “It was a fiasco”
A demanding actor.
Russell Crowe
A-listers, Oscar winners, and superheroes: Michael Jackson’s chaotic history of prank calling movie stars
Imagine getting prank called at the height of your fame by the King of Pop.
Russell Crowe on the most difficult performance of his career: “The hardest I’ve ever done”
Doing the source material justice.
The movie Russell Crowe was offended at being offered: “I didn’t want to go anywhere near it”
He still did it, though.
“You’ve got to be prepared to go to war”: why Ridley Scott’s muse needed to be a fellow firebrand
Two creatives unwilling to back down.
“You can see pictures of my innards”: the movie that hospitalised Russell Crowe
“I was in a massive amount of pain…”
The director Russell Crowe called “one of the greatest filmmakers ever to exist”
A hint of bias, but not inaccurate.
The “extremely important idea” Ron Howard took from Russell Crowe
“The physical changes but also all the emotional and psychological changes as well.”
The movie Russell Crowe regretted turning down: “I felt there was a cheating aspect to it”
In hindsight, he made the wrong call.
