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Now it has come out that he has Threatened the life of one of the Produces of Gladiator.......
Whats next??? Was it Crowe, Dressed as David Fa'alogo, who punched Jason
taylor????
Whats next??? Was it Crowe, Dressed as David Fa'alogo, who punched Jason
taylor????
Claims Crowe threatened to kill producer
MATT BUCHANAN AND LEESHA MCKENNY
April 28, 2010
THE actor Russell Crowe threatened to kill a producer, insulted the script and was a pain on the set of the film that won him an Oscar, a new book says.
The allegations about life on the set of Gladiator with the Australian phone-thrower are contained in Nicole LaPorte's expansively titled The Men Who Would Be King: An Almost Epic Tale of Moguls, Movies, and A Company called DreamWorks, which is out next month.
Extracts detailing Crowe's alleged behaviour were published on the website Defamer, including claims he called the producer Branko Lustig, a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp, at 3am to tell him that he would kill him ''with my bare hands'' for underpaying the allowances to his assistants.
It continues that he ''refused to summon a scintilla of good humour'' when coaxed to return to an abandoned script meeting, twice walked off set in Morocco and pouted over some of his best lines.
''Even when he was supposedly having 'fun', Crowe was a puffy pain,'' an extract reads.
''After challenging members of the crew to a foot race, and losing, he would mutter for days, 'I would have won, but I can't run in the sand in sandals.'''
Crowe, who is promoting his film Robin Hood in the US, was unavailable for comment. But his spokesman was. ''I've been told that Amazon already has the book discounted,'' he said. ''Go figure.''
MATT BUCHANAN AND LEESHA MCKENNY
April 28, 2010
THE actor Russell Crowe threatened to kill a producer, insulted the script and was a pain on the set of the film that won him an Oscar, a new book says.
The allegations about life on the set of Gladiator with the Australian phone-thrower are contained in Nicole LaPorte's expansively titled The Men Who Would Be King: An Almost Epic Tale of Moguls, Movies, and A Company called DreamWorks, which is out next month.
Extracts detailing Crowe's alleged behaviour were published on the website Defamer, including claims he called the producer Branko Lustig, a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp, at 3am to tell him that he would kill him ''with my bare hands'' for underpaying the allowances to his assistants.
It continues that he ''refused to summon a scintilla of good humour'' when coaxed to return to an abandoned script meeting, twice walked off set in Morocco and pouted over some of his best lines.
''Even when he was supposedly having 'fun', Crowe was a puffy pain,'' an extract reads.
''After challenging members of the crew to a foot race, and losing, he would mutter for days, 'I would have won, but I can't run in the sand in sandals.'''
Crowe, who is promoting his film Robin Hood in the US, was unavailable for comment. But his spokesman was. ''I've been told that Amazon already has the book discounted,'' he said. ''Go figure.''
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