Russell Crowe

So there's one conversation where golf comes up and you can see there's like a little color comes up in his cheek because he wants to defend himself or big himself up or whatever.

It's just...

absolute minor detail of no concern to anybody else except me but it amused me you know um but in that conversation you know and I asked him some pretty tough questions and you know probably you know at my age now questions I would never ask somebody in that situation but you know

as you know younger and and uh you know uh had that kind of confidence um and i kind of crossed into some territory that wasn't comfortable for him and i made him cry you know and he didn't want to cry but he was sitting opposite me and he was sort of like emotionally affected i was man i've

I have to honor this man.

I have to put every effort I can into making sure that I tell his story the right way around.

So then I met Ridley and I was coming off that film.

And I'd made a decision at the beginning because we kept cutting my hair and dyeing it.

We bleached it seven times, but it wouldn't behave like an old person's hair.

We could comb it into place, and then the next day it would go.

And we were...

We took the hairline back, shaving the hair back and everything.

I mean, I just looked so fucking weird.

And at a certain point, I just said to Michael Mann, I said, just get me a wig.

This is just crazy.

I'll shave my head, just get me a wig.

I'll wear the wig because then my hair is going to be exactly right.

And that's what we did.

So when I met Ridley...

I was maybe 35 or 40 pounds heavier than I'd been on L.A.