Current:Home > FinanceRussell Crowe fractured both legs on set of 'Robin Hood' but 'never took a day off' -Capitatum
Russell Crowe fractured both legs on set of 'Robin Hood' but 'never took a day off'
View
Date:2025-04-17 04:42:59
Are you not entertained? Russell Crowe has revealed he once finished shooting a movie "with two broken legs."
In an interview with People magazine, the "Gladiator" star, 59, said he fractured both of his legs on the set of the 2010 movie "Robin Hood" but didn't realize it until years later.
According to Crowe, the incident occurred during a scene where he had to jump "off a castle portcullis onto rock-hard uneven ground" with no pad below him.
"As I jumped, I remember thinking, 'This is going to hurt,'" Crowe recalled. "It was like an electric shock bursting up through my body. We were shooting a big movie, so you just struggle through, but the last month of that job was very tricky. There was a number of weeks where even walking was a challenge."
Crowe explained he never spoke with the production about his injury and "never took a day off because of it, I just kept going to work." But 10 years later, he started experiencing pain in his legs and visited a doctor, who saw remnants of fractures in Crowe's shin bones and said they would have been from about a decade earlier.
'Gladiator' at 20:Russell Crowe commemorates film's anniversary with iconic line
"Apparently I finished that movie with two broken legs," Crowe said. "All for art. No cast, no splints, no painkillers, just kept going to work and over time they healed themselves."
This was far from Crowe's first injury sustained on set, though. In a 2016 interview with Vulture, the actor said he has a disintegrating hip due to a fall while filming 2000's "Gladiator. During pre-production of another film, he said he had to lift someone up who "stepped on my arms both at the same time and pulled and just tore the labrum tissue." Additionally, Crowe was injured during pre-production on the 2005 boxing movie "Cinderella Man."
"I was in the middle of an actual boxing fight and this Canadian former-Olympic-level boxer took my elbow out which subluxated my shoulder, which exacerbated a problem that was already there," Crowe told Vulture.
See Russell Crowe'sjaw-dropping transformation into Roger Ailes for 'The Loudest Voice'
The actor also told Vulture he has tears in his Achilles tendons and no cartilage in his toes. "Well, the cartilage (missing) in the toes is really all about the lateral movement you do in fight sequences," he explained.
In a 2017 interview with the "Chrissie, Sam & Browny" radio show, Crowe also said "one of the stupidest things I ever did" was perform a stunt for the 2000 film "Proof of Life" where he had to run and jump onto a helicopter. He recalled getting "like 20 cuts across my face," adding that the "only thing that stopped me from dying was having a grip on the strap."
veryGood! (42)
Related
- Golf's No. 1 Nelly Korda looking to regain her form – and her spot on the Olympic podium
- Amid surging mail theft, post offices failing to secure universal keys
- To the parents of a newly-diagnosed child on World Autism Day: One day you will bake a cake
- Kristen Doute Reacts to Being Called Racist Over Her Vanderpump Rules Firing
- Whoopi Goldberg is delightfully vile as Miss Hannigan in ‘Annie’ stage return
- US Rep. Lauren Boebert recovering from blood clot surgery
- Minnie Driver says 'Hard Rain' producers denied her a wetsuit while filming to 'see my nipples'
- A claim that lax regulation costs Kansas millions has top GOP officials scrapping
- 'Most Whopper
- Medicaid expansion plans and school funding changes still alive in Mississippi Legislature
Ranking
- Can Bill Belichick turn North Carolina into a winner? At 72, he's chasing one last high
- Travis Kelce announces lineup for Kelce Jam music festival. Will Taylor Swift attend?
- Bird Flu Is Picking its Way Across the Animal Kingdom—and Climate Change Could Be Making it Worse
- Slump slammed! Bryce Harper's grand slam is third HR of game after hitless start to 2024
- NCAA hits former Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh with suspension, show-cause for recruiting violations
- Activists say S.B. 4 immigration law could be key to flipping GOP hold on Texas
- As Legal Challenges Against the Fossil Fuel Industry Notch Some Successes, Are Livestock Companies the Next Target?
- Shannen Doherty Details Letting Go of Her Possessions Amid Cancer Battle
Recommendation
The GOP and Kansas’ Democratic governor ousted targeted lawmakers in the state’s primary
Cyprus president asks EU Commission chief to get Lebanon to stop migrants from leaving its shores
Brittany Cartwright Addresses Rumor Her and Jax Taylor's Breakup Is a Publicity Stunt
House Republicans launch longshot effort to rename Dulles Airport to honor Donald Trump
Louisiana high court temporarily removes Judge Eboni Johnson Rose from Baton Rouge bench amid probe
Kansas City Chiefs’ Rashee Rice leased Lamborghini involved in Dallas crash, company’s attorney says
In Texas, Ex-Oil and Gas Workers Champion Geothermal Energy as a Replacement for Fossil-Fueled Power Plants
Artemis astronauts will need a lunar terrain vehicle on the moon. NASA is set to reveal the designer