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When the nervous Disney PR guy called me into the room, saying, “Mr Crowe is ready for you now“, I instinctively shouted back, “Tell him I’ll be there in a minute“. We had all realised by this point that the rascaly, rough and rude young Russ was sabotaging these TV interviews by giving one, long 10-minute answer.
And so it came to pass, with dud following dud leading to largely indie movies and the occasional
“Sergio, you had me at spaghetti…”
t was way back in June 2005 that I first realised that Russell Crowe was a 
bit of an arse.
t was way back in June 2005 that I first realised that Russell Crowe was a 
bit of an arse.The occasion was an interview for the not-that-bad Ron Howard movie Cinderella Man, and our boy was five hours late.
Then six hours.
And then, after seven hours had passed and most journalists had left for their flights home from New York, Crowe grudgingly appeared.
When the nervous Disney PR guy called me into the room, saying, “Mr Crowe is ready for you now“, I instinctively shouted back, “Tell him I’ll be there in a minute“. We had all realised by this point that the rascaly, rough and rude young Russ was sabotaging these TV interviews by giving one, long 10-minute answer. 
Which was nigh-on impossible to edit down to something insightful or revealing.
In fact, the only revealing thing the man did that day was throw a telephone at a New York hotel clerk, an outburst the Australian actor put down to a “combination of jetlag, loneliness and adrenalin”.
And being a bit of an arse.
Crowe in the upcoming Prizefighter
blockbuster cameo, from 2006’s A Good Year to 2008’s Body Of Lies, 2009’s State Of Play, 2010’s Robin Hood and on through The Man With The Iron Fists, Noah, The Nice Guys and Unhinged. If this man’s face was on the poster, people were sure to stay away in their millions.
