Russell Crowe
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Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I don't know why I'm pointing that way.
I don't even know which direction the river is from here.
But yeah, and Jeffrey Katzenberg busted my nuts about reading it.
I was like, man, I'm doing the band shows.
I'm recording with the band.
I just want to be in this space because I need you to read it now, you know.
And he'd been part of the Gladiator, so I read it.
And I ended up ringing him and thanking him because the experience of reading the script was just fantastic.
One of the best scripts I'd ever read.
And it had that device on the page.
So that wasn't a trick added by the filmmakers later.
The same experience of reading it is the experience you have when you're watching in the cinema.
So it was about, I don't know, two o'clock in the morning sitting on the back porch of that house.
It was still over a hundred degrees.
And I read it in one go.
I thought to myself when I sat down to read it, I'll read 10 pages.