Russell Crowe

Confidential, which was the last movie that he'd seen me in.

I was bald and had a really weird sort of suntan because of wearing the wig.

So my face had some, but my head was white.

And I don't know how he could possibly have ever seen me as the character.

But yeah, that first conversation I had with him and I said, when are you starting?

And he's like January.

And I was like, that's about three months, you know, 35 pounds.

Yeah.

And find muscles.

So, um, the first thing I did was I went back home and I went on a motorcycle ride.

for about 10 days.

And I sent a guy ahead of me in a van with a cooker.

So wherever I decided I was going to stop that night or whatever, I could only eat his food.

And it was just really, really basic, just sort of salads and beans and stuff like that.

It's changed so much over time, the knowledge we have and nutrition and everything.

Back then, you're working off some really dodgy information.

At one point in my life, everybody was told the Mediterranean diet is the key, so eat pasta every day, just like the Italians do.

cut to a whole bunch of big people, you know.

The thing being is the food production process is not the same necessarily in, you know, other countries outside of Italy.

You know, Italy or France, whatever they have, you know, food production methods that are...