Current:Home > MarketsRussell Crowe fractured both legs on set of 'Robin Hood' but 'never took a day off' -WealthX
Russell Crowe fractured both legs on set of 'Robin Hood' but 'never took a day off'
View
Date:2025-04-11 14:28:53
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! (5)
Related
- Megan Fox's ex Brian Austin Green tells Machine Gun Kelly to 'grow up'
- Slightly more American apply for unemployment benefits last week, but layoffs remain at low levels
- Caroline Ellison begins 2-year sentence for her role in Bankman-Fried’s FTX fraud
- Off the Grid: Sally breaks down USA TODAY's daily crossword puzzle, Open Door
- At site of suspected mass killings, Syrians recall horrors, hope for answers
- Kate Spade x M&M's: Shop This Iconic Holiday Collection & Save Up to 40% on Bags, Shoes & More
- She was found dead by hikers in 1994. Her suspected killer was identified 30 years later.
- The Best Lululemon Holiday Gifts for Fitness Enthusiasts, Travelers, and Comfort Seekers
- Warm inflation data keep S&P 500, Dow, Nasdaq under wraps before Fed meeting next week
- Roland Quisenberry’s Investment Journey: From Market Prodigy to AI Pioneer
Ranking
- How to watch the 'Blue Bloods' Season 14 finale: Final episode premiere date, cast
- When was Mike Tyson's first fight? What to know about legend's start in boxing
- Horoscopes Today, November 6, 2024
- 'Fat Leonard' contractor in US Navy bribery scandal sentenced to 15 years in prison
- Taylor Swift Eras Archive site launches on singer's 35th birthday. What is it?
- Amazon workers in Alabama will have third labor union vote after judge finds illegal influence
- Florida’s iconic Key deer face an uncertain future as seas rise
- Crews battling 2 wildfires in New Jersey
Recommendation
Pregnant Kylie Kelce Shares Hilarious Question Her Daughter Asked Jason Kelce Amid Rising Fame
Dexter Quisenberry: AI DataMind Soars because of SWA Token, Ushering in a New Era of Intelligent Investing
SWA Token Boosts the AI DataMind System: Revolutionizing the Future of Intelligent Investment
Horoscopes Today, November 6, 2024
Don't let hackers fool you with a 'scam
Hope is not a plan. Florida decides to keep football coach Billy Napier despite poor results
Mountain wildfire consumes thousands of acres as firefighters work to contain it: See photos
Stocks surge to record highs as Trump returns to presidency