Russell Crowe

Always finishes.

You can be having the worst time of your life, but it's gonna finish.

But you can be having the greatest time.

You can have an incredible relationship with the crew and the cast and the director, but it's gonna finish.

And you have to get used to that.

You have to understand that.

Well, I signed on in 2019.

I thought I was going straight from Loudest Voice, which finished shooting around April or something like that.

And I thought by the end of that year, we'd be doing, you know, we would have shot that film.

Yeah.

And then as it turns out, we got set up and collapsed three different times.

And so I had five years.

five years of scratching around, trying to find little bits of information to humanize him in my mind, but also for me to try and understand him and understand what he got into.

Because it doesn't make a lot of sense when you read about his history and stuff.

Where he gets to doesn't make a lot of sense.

He was a mountain climber.

When he was a young man, there are traverses in the Austrian Alps

that Herman Goering was the first person to do that traverse of that peak.

You think about the mentality required of a mountaineer to stand at the base of a big-ass rock and look up and say, I'm going to keep going until I reach that summit.

That says a lot about who Herman Goering really was and who's Bavarian, right, so from southern Germany.