Russell Crowe

So I would literally walk to the helicopter pad, jump in a helicopter –

10 minutes, that dropped me off in New Jersey.

Yeah, it was pretty cool.

The relief when that movie was over was huge, you know?

Because you do tie yourself in knots a little bit when you're playing a character like that.

And that's part of the job, and you just go with that flow, you know?

But, yeah, I was very, very happy to put all of the detail of those diseases aside because, you know, the guy that wrote it, his mom and dad, you know, treat people with schizophrenia.

So he had a lot of firsthand knowledge that he could pass on to me, you know, and a lot of that was to do with physical tells.

and when the physical tells happen in the course of somebody's connection to the disease.

The thing about Beautiful Mind is it has a device in the film.

The film begins, you believe everything that's unfolding in front of you, and then there's that click when you realize, hold on a second.

have I been watching him or am I inside his head?

And that's the thing that worldwide that trick works.

I saw that movie at a few premieres around the world and there's this gasp that comes out of the audience and it's only 15, 20 minutes in when they go, and they realize that they've been inside the head of a sick man as opposed to watching some spy drama unfold.

That was far out.

I read that script here.

Really?

Yeah.

I was doing the shows at 2000 Stubs.

I'd rented a beautiful house on the other side of the river.