Feb 24, 2005 - The March issue of GQ magazine will feature an article by correspondent Chris Heath who traveled to Australia to speak with Oscar-winning actor Russell Crowe. Crowe opened up on a variety of subjects during the interview, including thoughts on his fellow actors, family, product placement, his antagonistic relationship with the press, and the bizarre kidnapping saga that took place during the 2001 awards season.
Excerpts from the GQ Interview:
On celebrity product endorsement: "I don't use my 'celebrity' to make a living. I don't do ads for suits in Spain like George Clooney, or cigarettes in Japan like Harrison Ford. And on one level, people go, 'Well, more fault (to) you, mate, because there's free money to be handed out.' But to me it's kind of sacrilegious -- it's a complete contradiction of the f-----g social contract you have with your audience. I mean, Robert De Niro's advertising American Express." Crowe continues, "Gee whiz, it's not the first time (De Niro)'s disappointed me. It's been happening for a while now."
On marriage and family: "I've got a really strong relationship with Dani (Danielle Spencer) that has a scaffolding of years underneath it, and I've started to recognize that the things that were important were the ways that we shared particular attitudes toward certain things, and the way that we could laugh about certain things. You know, I'm really young at this marriage thing, but there's some quite wonderful things that come into your life with marriage, you know, and we discuss it quite regularly, because we feel ourselves growing closer together. We can actually feel that happening. And centering what we have as a marriage around the birth of Charlie, who came along probably faster than we were expecting, but we had both been celibate for the three months prior to the wedding... "
On his relationship with the press: "Probably the biggest difference -- the thing that really took my life and changed it, and made my relationship with the press a defensive one instead of one of tolerant amusement or whatever -- was Meg Ryan. And, gee whiz, I'm not going to apologize for that situation in my life. It's just there. Well, actually, that's wrong -- I would apologize if there are people that were directly hurt from that situation. There was never any intention like that. Quite frankly, it was in the papers before it was a reality, you know? So we were already having to deal with the b------t, and that possibly brought us close together, because we were both dealing with what it meant to be put in that situation."
You can read the entire interview with Russell Crowe in the March 2005 issue of GQ.
Source: GQ
