For the shooting of the adventure film Robin Hood, Russell Crowe went to the pain threshold and beyond. As he recently revealed, he broke both his legs and just kept going.
Russell Crowe not only often plays tough guys in his films, but is probably one himself. As he revealed in a recent interview, he had a serious accident while shooting Ridley Scott’s adventure film Robin Hood (2010). However, Crowe only realized the true extent of his injury much later. He didn’t let it stop him from working at the time
Russell Crowe injured himself badly on an adventure shoot and just carried on
In an interview with People Magazine about his new movie Land of Bad, Crowe revealed that he jumped off a castle onto a rock-hard floor on the Robin Hood set. He thought to himself that it wasn’t going to end well:
‘When I jumped, I thought, ‘This is going to hurt.’
The star describes the feeling of landing on the ground as an electric shock that shot through his body. But Crowe pulled himself together, went back to work and finished the last month of filming despite the injury.
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10 years later, Crowe underwent an ultrasound and afterwards the doctor asked him when he had broken his legs. Residues in the bones were still visible. The actor only then realized that he had broken both legs in the accident on the Robin Hood set.
In typical Crowe style, he simply said:
It’s all for art. No plaster, no splints, no painkillers, just keep working and over time they healed themselves.
Here you can watch the trailer for the new Russell Crowe movie Land of Bad:
In his new action thriller, Crowe plays Reaper, an Air Force drone pilot who is sent on a deadly mission with a strike team led by young Kinney. When they are surrounded by enemy troops and trapped, only Reaper can save the team. A German cinema release date for Land of Bad has not yet been set
