“It’s Going to Hurt”: Russell Crowe broke two legs in this movie and kept shooting

Russell Crowe has a Tom Cruise in each leg

We remember Tom Cruise injured on the set of Mission Impossible: Fallout (2018). A broken ankle that did not prevent the actor from continuing to shoot his scene to save it in the final cut. An impressive attitude that gave the film enormous publicity momentum. And yet more proof of Tom Cruise’s involvement in his projects. However, it was obviously nothing in comparison Russell Crowe.

The New Zealand actor, known among others for the role of Maximus in Gladiator (2000), returned to the set of another Ridley Scott film: Robin Hood (2010). She thus revealed to People who for his fifth collaboration with the director did not emerge unscathed and was decidedly effective he left both legs!

A serious injury Robin Hood that didn’t stop him

In fact, it was at the time of filming a waterfall Robin Hoodduring which he had to jump from the portcullis of a castle (first the scene in the excerpt below), that Russell Crowe would have this serious injury. The fault lies with the poorly protected floor, explains the actor.

I jumped from the portcullis of a castle onto rough, rock-hard terrain. We should have prepared the ground and buried a pillow, but we were in a hurry to take the photo in the fading light.

Even before he jumped, the actor suspected he would receive a shock, remembering thinking “It will hurt“, shortly before the launch. Except that during landing, the impact was more violent than he thought. Despite the pain, Russell Crowe then preferred continue playing pretending that everything was fine, since the sequence expected”hundreds of extras around him, with flying arrows and jets of fire“.

I felt like an electric shock went through my body. But we were making an important film. In these cases you have to make do. The last month of work was still very delicate. For several weeks, simply walking was a challenge.

Ten years to make it happen

Russell Crowe claims he didn’t tell production about his injury and didn’t even take a day off to rest: “I continued working“. In the end, only about ten years later did the actor realize what had happened. Having pain in his legs, he consulted a doctor and took x-rays. That’s when we asked him when he broke his legsand that he had understood the origin of his injury.

He apparently could see the remnants of fractures in both shins. To refresh my memory, she said, “Maybe it was ten years ago?”

We admit that we have difficulty believing that the actor could continue in this condition, with such a serious injury. Yet this is precisely what he affirms, declaring that he has”I finished this movie with two broken legs“. While I joked that I did.”everything for art“, insists that this serious injury would have partially healed on its own over time.

No cast, no splints, no painkillers, I just kept working and over time they healed on their own.

Russell Crowe got some more rest after filming Robin Hood. He gave himself a year off, because deep down he knew something was wrong. Which did not subsequently prevent him from undertaking a “intense physical training“six months to play Jor-El, Superman’s father Man of Steel (2013) by Zack Snyder.

Source: Cine Serie

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