{"id":14905,"date":"2020-08-19T18:25:35","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T01:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/?p=14905"},"modified":"2020-08-19T19:22:31","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T02:22:31","slug":"russell-crowe-says-sharon-stone-helped-his-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/russell-crowe-says-sharon-stone-helped-his-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell Crowe Says He Has Sharon Stone To Thank For His Career"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

While promoting his new movie, Unhinged<\/a><\/em>, which hits theaters this weekend, Russell Crowe popped up on Late Night with Seth Meyers<\/em> for a virtual interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crowe, who has occasionally been known for being a bit prickly in interviews, is nonetheless one of the more entertaining and candid actors in an interview when he’s game for it. During his talk with Seth Meyers, had glowing things to say about one person in particular: Sharon Stone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As it turns out, she’s the entire reason he even has a Hollywood career. Acting is a rough gig – not so much once you’ve made it and are established, though it’s still hard work, but more in trying to break in. It takes most actors a decade before they land their first significant role, and hundreds, if not thousands, of auditions. As an Australian actor trying to make it in Hollywood, Crowe confirms it was extremely rough going for him for the first few years as he flew back and forth to the U.S. to talk to film people and audition. He quickly discovered that Hollywood players in L.A. will “nice you to death,” giving positive feedback while not actually intending to cast him. It wasn’t until Sharon Stone stepped into his life that he finally landed his breakthrough role in the U.S.:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It took me, probably, 18 months or more and literally hundreds and hundreds of meetings before I got an American gig, and I only got it because Sharon Stone had seen a movie I was in and she was doing her first gig as a producer on a movie called The Quick and the Dead<\/em>. And she was kind of in a sword fight with he male producers on the film. She just put her foot down and said, ‘I’m going to hire the person I want to hire as the love interest.’ If it wasn’t for her strength of commitment, I don’t know how long it might have been before I landed an American role. I have a lot to thank her for.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The Quick and the Dead<\/em>, directed by Sam Raimi, came out in 1995 and featured an absolutely stacked cast including Stone and Crowe, Leonardo DiCaprio, Gene Hackman, Lance Henriksen, Gary Sinise, Keith David and Kevin Conway. It told the story of Ellen, a female gunslinger who returns to her Western frontier hometown for a shooting tournament, which she enters in order to avenge her father’s death. Crowe played Cort, a reformed outlaw turned preacher who became Ellen’s love interest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the movie more or less flopped critically and commercially, Crowe’s talent and screen presence were noted, and his Hollywood career grew after that. Within the next five years, he continued to work steadily and landed major star-making roles in L.A. Confidential<\/em>, Mystery, Alaska<\/em>, Gladiator<\/em> and A Beautiful Mind<\/em>, nabbing his first Best Actor Oscar for Gladiator<\/em> and being nominated again a year later for A Beautiful Mind<\/em>. And he owes his start on that path to Sharon Stone.

Check out the full interview below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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