Russell Crowe

That's funny.

It's that hard to get?

Yeah.

Yeah, but she's supposed to be a chick, right?

Well, it was some famous American writer, Damon Runyon or whatever, who coined the phrase.

He wrote that the story of James J. Braddock is a Cinderella story.

That's where he got the nickname.

But sometimes you're playing characters that you don't really –

rate as a person or whatever or you know sometimes playing very negative characters you know earlier this year I did Nuremberg where I played Herman Goering so that's going to be coming out soon looking forward to people seeing that but

Braddock was such an experienced man because everything that I read about him, the stories I heard about him, I just liked him more and more, which can be a bit of a dangerous thing as an actor.

I try not to fall in love with the character.

What I say is I'm in love with the job.

So my job is to show you who that person is, whether it's positive or negative.

because it's kind of weird.

You can't fall in love with Hitler, you know what I mean?

If you're playing that role, you know what I mean?

So that's how I sort of keep my objectivity.

But I met Braddock's family and stuff like that, and they kept telling me stories that just made me like him more and more.

So it was an honor to be able to play that role, really, and bring him back to a consciousness because people had forgotten about him.

It was Angela, man.