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I don't know why, but I have a weakness for people who mess with interviewers. I instinctively respect both the intelligence and the balls required to do this well. Anyone can merely be rude; being consistently unsettling is a whole different ballgame.
I'd heard that Russell Crowe was "combative" and "difficult to work with" (etc.) on the Gladiator set but didn't think much about it because he was working with Ridley Scott. Duh.
His apparent power over reporters, directors, friends and pretty much anyone who comes into his life is sort of fascinating. It's as if he has a gravitational pull of his own. He blew my doors off the first time I came across him, which was in The Insider. That was just an amazing performance.
Crowe has intense potential for weirdness, or weird potential for intensity. That's very cool.
It probably says something strange about me that I'm drawn to this quality in a person.
I'd heard that Russell Crowe was "combative" and "difficult to work with" (etc.) on the Gladiator set but didn't think much about it because he was working with Ridley Scott. Duh.
His apparent power over reporters, directors, friends and pretty much anyone who comes into his life is sort of fascinating. It's as if he has a gravitational pull of his own. He blew my doors off the first time I came across him, which was in The Insider. That was just an amazing performance.
Crowe has intense potential for weirdness, or weird potential for intensity. That's very cool.
It probably says something strange about me that I'm drawn to this quality in a person.
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I don't think I've seen Billy Zane in anything, but I'll check that out. I didn't know Depp has a history of messing with interviewers. I'll look up one of his fan pages and see if I can find interviews with him being weird, difficult, or abusive. He definitely seems smart and mischievous enough to mess with people... does he?
Jim Morrison used to intimidate interviewers to amuse himself. And Harrison Ford, before Star Wars went global and made him be nicer, was casually impossible to just about everyone. During the filming of American Graffiti, he threw Richard Dreyfuss off a balcony into a swimming pool. Somehow that edginess in him makes him a more interesting actor, although I wouldn't want to piss him off.
Ditto Russell Crowe. But damn, he sounds like fun.