Russell Crowe

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.

He introduces himself and he just asked me, how do you get into acting?

And so we had this very, very brief conversation and we got swamped by these other kids.

A couple of days later, I was doing a present for the kid from that school who'd played my son.

It was a boy called Merlin Hanbury Tennyson, his name was.

And so I was doing a thing for him.

And then I had some other things left over.

And I was like, what was that other kid's name?

Oh, Henry.

So I wrote on a photo of Gladiator of Maximus, which was a movie that had not actually been released yet.

To Henry, journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Russell.

He kept that photograph with him for wherever he lived or place to place.

And he kept his dream alive and burning.