Who is Russell Crowe?

**Santa Fe** · #1 (**permalink**) 11-07-2006, 02:44 AM

O.K. I don't go to movies much but the local buzz is this guy is renting a place a mile or less away from me while filming a movie just below my place in the Bureau of Land Management area that backs up to me. It is a western called 3:15 to Yuma (I think I saw that as a kid?). They needed extras and I was considering taking the horse down there until they had an accident that killed a horse and severely injured a rider so that did it for me. Anyway the converstation about this guy is fairly negative but I don't know why.

**K-Man S** · #2 (**permalink**) 11-07-2006, 02:46 AM

Did you ever see Gladiator or Master and Commander or Virtuosity? He's played in lots of movies, he's an Aussie. Some of his stuff I like, some I don't. Don't know anything about the man personally.

Fredyy · #3 (**permalink**) 11-07-2006, 02:59 AM

He had a wonderful part to play in "A Beautiful Mind" and was totally brilliant at it.

**Swancoat** · #4 (**permalink**) 11-07-2006, 05:10 AM

He's been in the news a lot because he's giving a bunch of interviews for his new movie coming out. He did some ****-ish things recently, and he's saying something like how hard it will be to shake that, like he's not that bad of a guy...

But a friend of mine met him back in the day when he was filming 'Mystery, Alaska', before he was super-huge. Her assessmet: Total Azzhole.

AgCroc · #5 (**permalink**) 11-07-2006, 06:56 AM

Don't see many movies, but Fredyy is quite right about "A Beautiful Mind", in my opinion.

Flyer · #6 (**permalink**) 11-07-2006, 07:46 PM

Good actor, VERY well known. The buzz is that he is difficult to work with and a Jack Arse.

If you can be an extra that would be cool knowing that the movie won't be a second rate movie, it will be a huge worldwide release because he is a "BIG" actor. Don't you want to become famous?

Fadiboy · #7 (**permalink**) 11-07-2006, 07:51 PM

Stay away from Russell Crowe and telephones

**chows4us** · #8 (**permalink**) 11-07-2006, 07:55 PM

Gladiator made Russell Crowe ...

After that his head swelled a bit and refused to show up for the Oscars (or something like that)

**Silent Will** · #9 (**permalink**) 11-07-2006, 07:59 PM

He is a New Zealander that now resides in Sydney. Actor by profession. He is supposedly a pretty down to earth guy that likes to brawl, drink, swear, get fat, shag anything half decent, and loves Rugby of course (like 99% of NZ men).

Gladiator?

**chows4us** · #10 (**permalink**) 11-07-2006, 08:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Silent Will

Gladiator?

Gladiator ...

My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.

**Santa Fe** · #11 (**permalink**) 11-07-2006, 08:28 PM

Appears he has had his vengence by throwing things from the scuttlebutt. Anyway there seems to be a lot of "interesting cars" in the area as a result at the moment.

**Silent Will** · #12 (**permalink**) 11-07-2006, 08:32 PM

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Originally Posted by chows4us

My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.

Classic quote!

**Swampcroc** · #13 (**permalink**) 11-07-2006, 11:58 PM

He was a paranoid schizophrenic professor at Princeton who won the Nobel Prize in economics.
Agree. Crowe played John Nash beautifully, especially in Nash's later years; mild mannered and very humble. True to the real person and certainly a beautiful mind. FYI, John Nash had two sons, one who earned a PhD. in mathematics (as did his father) and who also has schizophrenia.