Russell Crowe

And then part of you goes, I should leave that aside.

And then the other voice goes, let's just have a go.

And see someone like Goering.

You know, that word nuance is coming up a lot today because we can look at him in the stark sort of caricature version that a lot of people have in their minds of who he was.

But that against the reality of his life and how he grew up, how he was educated, what his experiences were, who he really was as a man.

There's a lot more to Goering than just looking at this going, oh, bad man, Nazi, you know.

One of the things I find fascinating, when he was a kid at school, he was like one of the dumbest students in his class at a normal school.

And because of his sort of continuous failure as a punishment, he got sent to military school.

In military school, he was a top student because it was stuff that interested him.

He comes out of school pretty much on the dawn of the First World War, has his first military experience in the infantry as a young officer, gets wounded.

and realizes that standing on the ground on a battlefield is not really the right place for him.

What's interesting him is what keeps going on overhead.

So he manufactures a way to get himself assigned to a fighter squadron.

It's supposed to turn back up for duty with his infantry squadron, but sort of, you know...

manufactures a way to keep him associated with the fighter squadron, learns how to become a pilot while he's doing that.

And at a certain point in the war, they're losing more pilots than they train.

So they go, he knows how to fly.

He can be a pilot.

Finishes the First World War with 22 kills, air-to-air kills.

That's three times a fighting ace.