Russell Crowe
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And so I used to just go over to the corner.
He'd stick it in my mouth.
But then we developed a set of gloves that were Velcroed.
So they had the laces on the outside, but they're actually Velcro.
I could get them out so I could have a cigarette.
Not constantly, but we'd be doing a shooting day in the ring.
You're in the ring all fucking day.
So you're going to be in the ring doing boxing stuff for 12 hours.
So when we started that film, Ron Howard's idea was to do the first 35 days of boxing.
And then do the scenes afterwards.
But after we did the first fight, which took six or seven days, I said, you've got to rethink that.
I'm rehabbing from the shoulder 35 days in a row.
It's like, it's going to break down, man.
So we redid the schedule and we cycled back into the boxing.
So I'd box Mondays and Tuesdays.