Russell Crowe

I worked with a guy called Mark Twight.

You ever heard of him?

No.

There was this company for a while called Jim Jones, and they were considered to be the hardest asses in the physical training business.

It was very, very difficult to become a Jim Jones trainer and stuff.

And Mark was the guy that trained the trainers.

And he got assigned to me.

Oh, my God.

The things that he put me through.

But it was all great.

And we remain strong friends now because we did some shit together.

I like that kind of mateship.

You've been in the trenches or whatever.

And so the following year, I played the mayor of New York in a thing called Broken City with Mark Wahlberg, which is... It's funny, that's one of those performances that people just haven't seen, but I quite rate that performance.

And then I did Les Mis with, you know, all that beautiful cast and sort of spent...

three or four months on that and then straight into Noah so I was exhausted before I started you know I'd had three really big jobs in a row and then to drop into that which was it was a lot of physical stuff on that movie and Darren shoots a lot so those big wide shots you're still doing the same action as you're doing when you're close in so you're sort of working you know pretty hard um

But I think if anything, I was really excited by the fact of being able to delve into that.

I would have preferred what I'm getting at is a little more time.

Because it's the quiet contemplation that really fills you up for the thing that you're about to do.

And when you're coming straight off one film set pretty much onto another, I think I had a gap of about two or three weeks.