Russell Crowe

So it's perfectly safe.

So I've taken that on board.

So we take two, take three, take four.

Right about after the fifth take, now these lights in that room are very, very hot and my body is starting to –

really warm up you know and we're taking a long time between takes resetting lights and all that you know but you know after about the fifth take I get a moment to talk to Tarantula man you know how you doing all that sort of stuff pretty cool that you can milk the venom from the tarantulas so they can do things like this and he just looks at me really confused you can milk the what yeah

Okay, so what I thought was my only safety net, gone, right?

So take six, take seven, and I'm starting to really get hot.

These are, you know, I wouldn't be surprised if they're all Klieg lights, you know, because it didn't look like anybody had used this studio for a long, long time, you know.

And I'm heating up.

And at one point in time, it was about take seven or eight, and the spider just stops on my neck and starts to sort of like spread its legs out and just sort of like grab at me, you know, and it's sort of pulsing, you know.

And then I'm sort of like just lying there going, and then the tarantula guy tickles it, up it goes, you know.

And I'm kind of like, well, what was that?

It's only just a couple of seconds.

As soon as it started going into the mouth, the guy would just grab it out because they can cut around that.

As long as they see it going in, then they can cut around it to make it look like it's disappeared in there.

So take eight.

that happens the tarantula stops on the neck take nine we're done for the day right so nine takes with a live tarantula crawling into my mouth right the next day i wake up and i've got a rash all over me my legs and my chest and my arms you know so i call production they call a doctor who's you know knows about these sort of things he comes over to see me he goes ah okay

All right.

See, were you hot yesterday?

I said, very hot, you know, under the lights and stuff like that.