Russell Crowe

And it was just the point where I texted my agent and I said, you know what, I maybe need to talk to these guys because I'm not sure if I've – I don't have any juice here.

I don't know what I'm going to be bringing.

I'm sitting in these meetings and everybody's talking, but it's all just bouncing off my face.

I'm not really taking anything in.

And that same night I get a phone call around 10.30 and it's so unusual because I have everything turned off on my phone.

It never rings.

But for whatever reason, it did ring.

It was the director saying, look, I'm so sorry to tell you that Henry's injured himself.

He's ruptured his Achilles.

So we're going to have to push the film.

Now, I love Henry.

I've known him for a long time.

I've known him since he was a schoolboy.

Oh, wow.

And I met him.

at a place called Stowe School in England.

I was doing a scene in a movie called Proof of Life, talking to my son in the movie, and in the background, a rugby game's going on.

And, you know, we're doing the scene and everything, but I've got my eye on the field, and there's one guy on the field who is just displaying he's got a great brain for the game.

And as it happens, we finish the scene, and they break up the...

what's going on behind us and that one kid is walking towards me and he's the kid that I've been watching and he wants to have a chat.