14 DAY TRIAL // Just the other day, Russell Crowe was saying in a magazine interview that there was little to no truth to stories about him being an aggressive, impossible to work with person. Still, he admitted that he did have a temper that would flare up in an instant, something he more than confirmed while on air on BBC Radio 4, when asked about whether he’d gone for an Irish accent with his take on Robin Hood in the latest Ridley Scott film.
As The Sun can confirm with a recording of the interview, Russell doesn’t exactly do well with criticism, no matter how delicately it’s made. When interviewer Mark Lawson says that he believes he senses a few touches of Irish in Crowe’s Robin Hood, the actor concludes he can only be deaf – or close to it. He then goes on to speak about what they tried to do to the well-known story but can’t possibly let that remark go and returns to it again by the end of the interview.
“Swearing Russell Crowe stormed out of a BBC interview after he was accused of making Robin Hood sound Irish in his new film. The New Zealander was being quizzed on Radio 4 about his dodgy Sherwood Forest accent when he lost his rag and yelled: ‘[Expletive]s!’ Cursing Crowe, 46, flipped when interviewer Mark Lawson suggested ‘hints’ of Irish in his portrayal of the Nottingham legend – and asked the Hollywood hellraiser why. The Gladiator star raged: ‘You’ve got dead ears mate – seriously dead ears if you think that’s an Irish accent’,” The Sun writes of the interview, with a few obvious touches of sensationalism.
At one point, the discussion seems to head towards safer ground, but Russell turns back on it, saying “I can’t believe you’d think that was an Irish accent.” Then, “Lawson – in an interview for Front Row recorded at London’s Dorchester Hotel – asked him if the accent was meant to be northern. The actor snarled before flouncing off: ‘No I was going for an Italian... missed it? [Expletive] me’,” the aforementioned tab goes on to say.
The Sun also claims that was the reason why Crowe stormed off, though it might be a bit off the mark here. Lawson tried to ask the actor about his supposed refusal to say the most famous line in “Gladiator” (“And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next”) on the grounds that it sounded too lame and would make him look like a fool, as per the claims of a recently published book. At this point, both the actor and what could have only been his publicist get up and leave. Please refer here for the recording – meanwhile, below is a video of Crowe and some of the cast members of “Robin Hood” showing their fun side with a cover of Sean Kingston’s “Beautiful Girls.” Enjoy.