By Russell Crowe has spoken about an accident on the set of Ridley Scott’s 2010 film “Robin Hood” that left him with broken legs.
Shot in early-mid 2009 across England and Wales, Crowe led the film as Robin Longstride alongside Cate Blanchett as Marion, Oscar Isaac as Prince John, Matthew Macfadyen as the Sheriff of Nottingham as well as William Hurt, Mark Strong, Danny Huston, Lea Seydoux and Max von Sydow.
Our promoting his new thriller “Land of Bad,” Crowe revealed to People that he was filming a scene involving him jumping off a castle portcullis onto “rock-hard uneven ground”.
He says he knew he’d injured himself but kept going, never advising the production of this and never taking a day off:
“I jumped off a castle portcullis onto rock-hard uneven ground. We should have prepped the ground and buried a pad, but we were in a rush to get the shot done in the fading light. As I jumped, I remember thinking, ‘This is going to hurt.’ [It felt] like an electric shock bursting up through my body.
We were shooting a big movie, so you just struggle through, but the last month of that job was very tricky. There was a number of weeks where even walking was a challenge
It wasn’t until a full decade later when he started having pains and had an X-ray that he was made aware of how bad it was when the doctor found remnants of fractures in both shin bones:
Apparently, I finished that movie with two broken legs. All for art. No cast, no splints, no painkillers, just kept going to work, and over time, they healed themselves.. Between the time off and that training [for Man of Steel], things fixed themselves.”
The film received mixed reviews and did underwhelm somewhat, with $321.7 million at the box office from a budget of at least $155 million.
Source: People
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