Russell Crowe Breaks Down His Career, from 'Gladiator' to 'The Pope's Exorcist' | Vanity Fair

by Panzer
- You know, I wish that every
young actor could have something like a, "Gladiator",
in their career.
When I first saw it, I was blown away by it.
And when I first saw it with a crowd,
that's when it really freaked me out.
Emperor
puts that knife under Maximus' arm towards the end,
people were angry
they were standing in their seats and going-
[laughing] And I was like, "Whoa!
This is big".
[upbeat music]
Hello, I'm Russell Crowe
and this is the timeline of my career.
[upbeat music]
- Now, where did you say that pain was?
I thought you said it was over here.
- Oh, yeah. There.
I think I was 12 when I did, "The Young Doctors".
It was a school tour.
The end of the year we're allowed to pick
things that we wanted to do from a list
and one of the things was to go and visit a TV studio.
So I go to the TV studio
and there was an actor there
that I knew from when I was even younger.
His name was Roy Harries-Jones.
And he said to me, "Are you here for a casting?".
[laughing]
And I said, "No, I'm just with the school group".
And he said, "Well, let them do that.
Come on, I'll introduce you to the casting agent".
And I ended up sitting with the casting agent,
I missed the whole tour,
but I had a really nice conversation
and that ended up with me getting the job.
- Russell, is your mother here with you?
- No.