Russell Crowe wants to play Steve Irwin

[obemon]

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Oscar-winning New Zealand-born actor Russell Crowe wants to play Steve Irwin in a film based on the life of the late Crocodile Hunter.
The multi-millionaire actor, who now calls Australia his home, has repeatedly spoken of his affection for his friend Irwin after he was tragically killed, aged just 44, by a stingray on the Great Barrier Reef. Crowe is reportedly in talks with Universal Studios about making a biopic, according to a Hollywood industry magazine, In Touch Weekly. Sydney-based Crowe, 42, told the magazine he is "desperate" to be involved with the movie project.

The Gladiator and Insider star and owner of the South Sydney Rabbitohs league team, speaking on videotape at Irwin's memorial service, said: "We've all lost a friend, we've lost a champion, and we're going to take some time to adjust to that."

Meanwhile, the widow of the Crocodile Hunter has spoken publicly for the first time since Steve Irwin's death. Terri Irwin says she is a long way from coming to terms with what has happened. She says at times she still thinks husband Steve is coming home. In an emotional interview with Australia's Channel Nine she says she was overwhelmed at last week's public memorial. She says she walked into the Crocoseum, where the event was held, where she knew people would be missing Steve. She says the feelings of love and support from Australians was just overwhelming.

Mrs Irwin was on holiday in Tasmania with the couple's children when she got the call from her husband's best friend and manager John Stainton. He said there had been a diving accident with Steve, and she says all that was going through her mind was "don't say it, don't say it. don't say it".

"But he said it," she says, "he said those three words - that Steve was dead".

Mrs Irwin has recorded two interviews - one with Barbara Walters of the US ABC network, and the other with Channel Nine's Ray Martin. Both interviews will go to air on Wednesday.

Source: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/6...jectid=10402857

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So what do you reckon guys? Russ the Muss playing the late Steve 'Crocodile Hunter' Irwin?


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[knapp]

i think russel crowe can pull it off. he is a very good actor and a very good friend of steve irwin. :mrgreen:

[kamikaze426]

http://newsinfo.inq7.net/breakingnew...ticle_id=23105

Crowe ‘appalled’ by reports of croc-hunter biopic


Agence France-Presse
Last updated 08:01am (Mla time) 09/26/2006


LOS ANGELES -- Australian star Russell Crowe has angrily denied reports that he is set to play crocodile hunter Steve Irwin in a movie immortalizing the daredevil naturalist.

Crowe, a good friend of Irwin who was killed by a stingray barb in a freak accident earlier this month, said he was appalled at suggestions that he was planning to star in a biopic, just weeks after the Australian's death.

"It's appalling to me," Crowe said in an interview with television show Extra to be screened here later Monday.

"(It) offends me very deeply, so awful that I have to deal with millions of people thinking I would dance on my friend's grave," Crowe added.

Reports said Crowe was already in talks with Universal about playing Irwin. One story cited an anonymous "insider" who said Crowe once told Irwin that he wanted to play him in a movie version of his life.

Oscar-winner Crowe made a recorded tribute from New York for last week's memorial service for Irwin in Australia that brought the nation to a standstill.

"We have lost a friend, a champion. It will take some time to adjust to that," Crowe said in the tribute.

Crowe, the star of "Gladiator" and "A Beautiful Mind", said the worldwide outpouring of grief that greeted Irwin's death reflected the deep affection in which the environmentalist was held.

"He proved that the enthusiasm with which you greet people is often reflected," Crowe said. "Some people see him as just a funny bloke on TV and he was a funny bloke on TV, but he was really serious about what he did!"

[josh_ryanne]

na read nako somewhere na gi deny ni ni russel crowe.