The Hollywood star Russell Crowe has no interest in being famous and thinks society’s obsession with people in the public eye is detrimental to the movie-making industry.
He said, “Some people believe celebrity is a power that should be used. Ultimately, your dollars are more powerful. I’m famous for making movies. Celebrity just happens to be an unfortunate byproduct of what I do. Whatever used to be called mystery, you’re not allowed to have that anymore. So there’s a whole bunch of blank space that’s filled in with stuff that fills up pages of newspapers. Which is not real, and you know it’s not real, and I know it’s not real. And readers don’t really care because that’s what they’re interested in.”
The 46-year-old star, whose new film is thriller The Next Three Days, a remake of the 2007 French film Pour Elle, has also compared being interviewed by journalists as being the same as “torture”. —Bang Showbiz