Russell Crowe

movies was not um they're not easy you know the first one was called the beast in me which uh is an mma movie i think we talked about that briefly it was going to be a ufc thing but we ended up doing a deal with one championship

So it's set in Australia and Thailand.

And it's doing some little private screenings in Los Angeles at the moment and getting a lot of really positive reactions.

The kid that's there, well, he's not a kid, but the lead role in that, Daniel McPherson, has done an extremely good job by the sounds of things.

I'm also attached to that.

I only play a very small role, but I rewrote it for them just before we started.

And I've done a lot of writing in my career, but it always goes uncredited.

But in this particular occasion, I think, I believe I'm going to get my first actual writing credit.

Oh, wow.

That's cool.

But I wrote the character that I play specifically to not be the character you think it's going to be.

to not be Burgess Meredith.

You think this guy is going to be, you know, the old coach who sort of like, you know, comes back out of retirement and everything.

But I know enough people in the boxing world or, you know, to know that once an old bloke makes a decision about you being a shithead, he's not going to change his mind.

So I wanted to play that guy.

So I went from that set to then I think called Bear Country, where I play an Albanian money launderer.

And that's got a great cast, Teresa Palmer, Luke Evans.

Nina Dobrev, Aaron Paul, Danny Zavada, and it's funny.

It's really funny.

That's with the same director that I did Unhinged with, a guy called Derek Port.