Russell Crowe

But a couple of years ago, he just put it in my mind, like, let's just say, we'll take these dates and I'll meet you somewhere.

So the first time we did it, we met up in Puglia in southern Italy.

And earlier this year, we met up in Marbella.

But I've already booked a vacation for next year.

I don't do that.

But it's like that thing of going somewhere which isn't home and isn't work, having no agenda, sort of hanging out by the pool, reading a book from beginning to end.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know, without having to sort of put it aside and come back to it a week later and go, oh, what was the protagonist doing again?

Yeah, it's very interesting.

It's very interesting that I should be, you know, I'm getting this late life education from a British comedian.

See, I didn't grow up in that sort of family.

We didn't have the money for that sort of thing.

We went on one big family holiday in 1970 where we all piled into my dad's station wagon.

Then we drove from Sydney up to northern Queensland.

But a cyclone came through on the way.

So we had like four days of sunshine and 26 days of rain.

So living in a caravan, playing Monopoly.

So it's not like I look back, oh, I remember the great vacations of my childhood.

So it was like my dad used to run pubs.