Even earlier than Russell Crowe received an Oscar for Finest Actor for Gladiator, he was an in-demand performer close to the flip of the century. That is proper across the time when director Peter Jackson was placing collectively the forged for his Lord of the Rings trilogy. Crowe has talked about earlier than that he met with Jackson about enjoying Aragorn, however now he is revisiting the reminiscence to elucidate why he handed on what may have been a task of a lifetime.
Whereas talking with British GQ, Crowe insisted that he has no regrets about turning the half down. The truth is, Crowe is satisfied that Jackson by no means actually needed him in any respect.
“I very a lot felt the studio have been making that call, not the movie director,” mentioned Crowe. “And I talked to Peter Jackson over the telephone, and he wasn’t saying the form of issues that administrators have been saying to you in the event that they have been actually making an attempt to draw you to a undertaking. And I simply type of acquired a way that he already had anyone else in thoughts that he needed to do. And me stepping ahead and saying sure was truly going to get in his means.”