Washington [US]October 15 (ANI): Actor Russell Crowe has responded to a book excerpt published months ago, which probably came to the attention of the recent Oscar winner.
According to Deadline, director PJ Hogan says in an excerpt from Scott Maslow’s book “From Hollywood with Love” that he originally tried to cast Crowe as the film’s titular best friend opposite soon-to-be Oscar winner Julia Roberts Was.
However, according to the director, Crowe was first to be OK with Roberts, who had approval for the casting. So he reportedly set up a table read.
In the book, Hogan said, “It was one of the worst tables I’ve ever experienced. Russell was sitting in front of Julia. He grabbed that script, and he looked at that script, and he turned to her once.” He read every line in unison. At one point, Julia was literally leaning over the table, staring, like, inches from Russell’s face, trying to make eye contact. And she turned to him will not see.”
“At the end of the reading, Russell came up to me and said, ‘I thought it was great.’ And then I knew: Russell wasn’t going to my best friend’s wedding,” he said, Deadline reported.
Responding to these claims, Crowe took to Twitter and said that he doesn’t remember it as such. In fact, he doesn’t remember it at all.
“Pure imagination from this director. I did not audition for this film. I have never read a table with the mentioned actress. Would be funny if it wasn’t so pointless,” he wrote.
Meanwhile, Crowe has been busy in Rome, where he recently met with Mayor Roberto Gualtieri and accepted a plaque indicating that he is an “ambassador” for Rome to the world, according to Deadline. (ANI)
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