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Russell Crowe found fame by portraying the role of Maximus Decimus Meridius in Ridley Scott’s 2000 iconic masterpieceGladiator.Following the success, the actor appeared in many iconic movies over the years.
Working alongside Zack Snyder and Henry Cavill, Russell Crowe portrayed the role of Jor-El in the 2013 DCEU movieMan of Steel.Defending the movie from critics, Crowe didn’t feel that the movie was too dark instead, the actor revealed thatMan of Steelwas more about“having more hope”.
When Russell Crowe Defended Henry Cavill’sMan of Steel
It was in 2013 when the world talked about how Zack Snyder had a little change of heart at the end ofMan of Steelwhen Superman killed General Zod. Although the superhero is an all-good person in the comics, Snyder decided to change the ending to reflect our society better.
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With the movie being deemed as“too dark”for a Superman movie,Russell Crowehad no choice but to defend the film in which he starred as Jor-El. An old interview of the actor was recently shared on X (formerly Twitter) about how he thought thatMan of Steelwasn’t dark at all and instead, the movie was about having more hope!
“I don’t see this as darker, you know. I see…I understand that, you know, the Batman franchise was definetly much darker than any Batman that’s ever been but I actually see this [Man of Steel] as having a more hope and more essential truth to it”
Well, Crowe owes his career breakthrough to Ridley Scott but the actor does have skills of his own. The actor even passed a screen test by the veteran director which made Scott say that he and Crowe are going to be great together.
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Russell Crowe Passed Ridley Scott’s Test
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Back in 2000, Crowe was selected for the lead role of Scott’s magnum opusGladiator.Portraying the role of Maximus Meridius, the film was essentially a career breakthrough for the actor. In an interview onThe Howard Stern Show, Russell Crowe talked about how Ridley Scott initially took a test.
“He just comes up to me and goes, ‘I’m just gonna shoot you contemplating, I want you to look over you to your right and I want you to see a small bird in the tree. Perhaps, it makes you smile, the bird takes off and I want you to watch its flight, and its flight brings you back to the battlefield, and what’s actually in front of you,'”
He further continued,
“And he goes, ‘Action!’ So I do that and I am pretty sure I did every single thing he asked, and I put little strokes of color on certain things and then I brought the attention back to the battlefield and he just came up to me [and said], ‘You and me are gonna be f**king great together mate.’”
And as they say, the rest is history. Russell Crowe won the Oscar for Best Actor in a Leading Role forGladiatorand Ridley Scott earned the nomination and fame for being an iconic director.Gladiatoris available to stream on Netflix in the U.S.
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Visarg Acharya is a Senior Writer at FandomWire, majorly focusing on movies, with over 3000 articles published. He has been an entertainment journalist for the past three years and a copywriter at a corporation. Visarg usually covers news and theories on the MCU and the DCU, with an emphasis on Avengers and Superman; Game of Thrones, and more.A Tarantino fan, Visarg, spends his time critiquing various directors’ filmographies and watching them with curiosity. Medieval fantasy like The Lord of the Rings or sci-fi movies like Interstellar, watching the latest horror movies, and listening to Hans Zimmer become his comfort zone. When idle, he can be found reading fantasy novels with a terrible cup of coffee in hand.
