Remember the days of yesteryear when Russell Crowe was throwing telephones at hotel clerks and ranting at awards show directors for cutting his speech short? Turns out the angry Aussie was also making death threats against moviemakers.
Crowe allegedly threatened to kill a film producer while shoot his Best Actor Oscar-winning role in the 2000 box office hit Gladiator.
Branko Lustig (center)
A new tell-all book, which offers a behind the scenes look at Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks Production Studio, claims that Russell was a terror to work with on the set and never let underlings forget who was boss. Russell thought that his assistants weren’t being paid well enough so he called 77-year-old producer Branko Lustig at three in the morning and told him, “You mother******. I will kill you with my bare hands.”
Charming….
Lustig was so frightened of Russell that Spielberg had to talk him out of quitting the project.
Set spies also claim that Russ stormed off the set countless times and threw tantrums about the script.