Russell Crowe

And he's also, because he recently passed in battle, at the end of the First World War, he's in charge of the Baron von Richthofen, the Red Baron Squadron, which is the pinnacle of the German Air Force.

So here he is as a young man.

He's finishing that first war experience.

And he is a fair dinkum, which means true.

He is an actual war hero.

And so through the 20s, he's on cigarette cards in Germany.

He'd buy a packet of cigarettes, and there's a picture of Hermann Goering.

Wow.

So he goes into that political environment, that post-Versailles environment, with a

a very definite belief in his country as being something special and he wants to make a contribution to bring lifting his country out of the mire that it's currently in so he starts looking for a political connection and ends up going upstairs in a coffee house in Munich I think it was and hearing a fellow called Adolf Hitler talk and realizes that he has a lot in common with this guy where he sees things and knows that Hitler was a soldier and

You know, it's a funny thing we put into the movie at one point because there's a speech that Rami Malek makes about Hitler being a failed painter and a not very good soldier.

And I think the response I gave Goering at the time, which is not in the film, but he talks through Hitler's actual military record.

And yeah, he didn't rise above Lance Corporal, but he turned down promotion three different times.

He won an Iron Cross in 1914, and then he won a second one in 1918.

And doing things that were showing such extreme courage that he was awarded the Iron Cross.

And he delivered messages on the battlefield.

He would take the messages from headquarters and take it to the frontline troops and then bring their response back, things like that.

You know, so at one point in time I had Goering say, you know, you can call him a failed painter, but maybe he got to a certain point in his life where there were more important things to address than painting.

So, you know, nuance.

Yeah, we only touch on it a little bit.