Russell Crowe

After a while, you get it.

You can move quite fast here.

But that natural instinct is to sort of cross your feet over.

But that leads to all sorts of problems.

It was a very interesting experience doing that movie.

And Ron Howard, as the director, I'd worked with him the year before on A Beautiful Mind, and he's a very exacting guy, and he likes to do things over and over again.

So when we first started that shoot, I don't know if you know this, but I subluxated my left shoulder.

I was doing a little fight with a guy called Wayne Gordon, another Canadian Olympian, and he just caught me on the point of my elbow and just put my shoulder out.

But because I was so fit at the time and so strong, it went out and back in.

But it came back in with such force that it broke the bone.

So I had to go and have an operation.

tore the labrum tissue and broke the bone.

So I had an op and the normal recovery is like three and a half months or something, right?

But I was making a movie.

I couldn't do that.

So I...

and they were gonna cancel the film, they were gonna just shut it down and all that, and I was like, no, no, no, no, I've waited for years to do this film, and I've already done the training, so we've gotta finish this, just give me X amount of weeks.

Yeah, which was really problematic on that situation.

But 20 days on the 21st day of rehab, I stepped in the ring and did 10 three-minute rounds on the 21st day after the operation.

But that has led to ongoing problems, which the doctor did say at the time.