Russell Crowe speaks candidly about an incident that happened on the set of the 20s Robin Hood Which resulted in his legs being broken.
In a promotional interview Bad landCrowe recalled the incident, saying: the people“I jumped off Portcullis Castle onto hard, uneven ground. We should have prepared the ground and buried a pillow, but we were in a rush to get the shot done in the dim light.
He continued: “With hundreds of extras, flying arrows and burning pots setting the castle on fire, there was no retreat.” “As I was jumping, I remember thinking: ‘This is going to hurt.’”
Crowe apparently landed heels first on the uneven ground, feeling “like an electric shock going off through my body.”
“We were shooting a big movie, so you were suffering from that, but the last month of that job was very difficult. “There were several weeks where walking was a challenge,” he added, noting that he “never discussed the injury with production” and “did not take I had a day off because of that, I just kept going to work.”
Ten years after the accident, Crowe began to feel pain, and after going to the doctor and taking an
“Apparently, I finished this movie with two broken legs,” he said. “It’s all for the art. There was no cast, no splints, no painkillers. They kept working, and over time, they healed themselves.”
After completing photography Robin HoodCrowe took a sabbatical and did not return to films until 2013 man of steelwhere the actor indicated that “between vacation and this training (L man of steel))Things fixed themselves.”