Russell Crowe

Um, eventually ended up doing it and Bridget Fonda was signed on as the female lead.

So that was cool.

You know, she was, um, pretty happening at the time.

Uh, I have a funny thing that goes on with my brain.

If I'm like faced with, um, I'm reading something and there's like a difficult moment in something that I'm liking, right?

Where my brain just goes, Hmm, to be dealt with later.

All right.

I'll worry about that when I have to, you know, shh.

and there was this scene where a spider would crawl into the mouth of the character I was playing.

I was thinking, hmm, I wonder how they're going to do that, CGI or something like that, you know?

Anyway, so off we go on this adventure, and we're shooting in Guatemala and Mexico, and it's an extremely disorganized shoot.

We don't have...

Nothing's right.

At one point in time, for seven days, we lived on refried beans and rice in Guatemala because they hadn't made any arrangement with any kind of catering company or anything.

And that was the only thing that they could get easily.

So it was breakfast, lunch, and dinner, refried beans and rice.

And the end of that week, one of the guys on the film crew found this, like, cafe that sold some form of grilled meat.

And we all just, like, went there in the middle of this rainforest and ate this meat and realized later on it was more than likely we were eating the monkeys that were running around the trees around us because everybody got really sick.

Oh, wow.

Really sick.