“I remember thinking, ‘This is going to hurt.'”
Russell Crowewill give his all for the art of cinema including shattering both of his legs.
“I jumped off a castle portcullis onto rock-hard uneven ground,” he said.
Russell Crowe in ‘Robin Hood’.Everett Collection
Crowe felt that too much was riding on his execution of the stunt to back out of it.
“As I jumped, I remember thinking, ‘This is going to hurt.'”
There was a number of weeks where even walking was a challenge."
The actor sees his physical resilience as a commitment to his craft.
“Apparently I finished that movie with two broken legs,” he said.
“All for art.
“Apparently he could see the remnants of fractures in both shin bones,” the actor recalled.
“To jog my memory he said, ‘Would have been maybe 10 years ago?'”
“In retrospect I obviously knew something was wrong,” he said.
“To be the Kryptonian father of Superman was six months of incredibly intense physical training.
Between the time off and that training, things fixed themselves.”
Crowes new action filmLand of Badis now playing in theaters.
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