Russell Crowe

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.

The next time I see Henry Cavill is in a gym in Illinois, the outskirts of Chicago.

And I'm working on one side of the gym.

He's working on the other.

And I'm thinking to myself, well, I'm Superman's dad.

I reckon that must be Superman over there.

Kind of looks like it.

So we worked in the gym a week or more together before we talk.