Russell Crowe

I'm not, you know, there's nothing, uh, it's not schedule specific, you know, which has been so much of my life.

I'm prepping for a thing that happens on a certain date.

You've got X amount of time to get to that place, you know?

Um, this I'm like, I'm really taking it on board as a decision I purely made for my own reasons, you know?

Um,

And that is, you know, when it's summertime, I like taking my shirt off by the pool, you know?

Right.

So it's like, all right, I've had 10 years without doing that.

So now I'm going back the other way.

Oddly enough, and I just, I would never have thought this, you know, and it doesn't seem logical, but you know,

When it got to a point with my Achilles that was affecting everything that I was doing, and they set me up, I did full blood injections, platelet-rich injections, did all of that stuff.

And then you're banging yourself with painkillers because it's such a heavy hit when you do that sort of thing, particularly with the Achilles and the moon boot and all that.

And it just wasn't working, man.

And I was doing the rehab exercises and everything, and I could feel...

With the rehab exercises, they were re-damaging the area.

They weren't making it better.

So I kind of said to the guy that I was working with, it's just like, I've got to stop.

I've got to stop.

Because every time I see you, then I limp the next day.

But if I don't do the exercises, after a certain amount of time, the limp gets less.