Russell Crowe's Biker Film Too Raw for Release  12/16/07

Russell Crowe once directed a biker film, but it turned out too emotional for him to release it.

The actor and a few pals took off on an 18-day expedition shortly after he completed work on Gladiator - and he started filming the whole adventure.

Crowe thought a film about tough guys opening up about true feelings would be a winner, but he had no idea how emotional he and his friends would become.

He says, "We rode all through Australia, me and about nine friends... It was amazing how much more people opened up the closer we got to the desert.

"They would reveal things about their families, their lives. It flows against the popular notion that men don't talk to each other when they're alone."

But what was to be Crowe's directorial debut has never been released.

He adds, "It was made as a home movie and it should remain a home movie."

Instead, Crowe will make his major movie directorial debut on new surfing biopic Bra Boys.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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