Russell Crowe will never forget the first time he met his American Gangster co-star Denzel Washington - he accidentally spat on his lip.

The two actors worked together on 1995 movie Virtuosity - made when Crowe was a virtual unknown - and Crowe cringes at the memory of his screen test opposite the already-famous Washington.

He says, "In 1995 on Virtuosity, I was doing a screen test and Denzel already had the gig.

"We had a cyclone wire fence between us and the scene was pretty intense.

They said, 'Action!' and I started going into it. And this little bit of spit comes out of my mouth, it was really athletic and graceful, wound its way through the cyclone wire and straight onto Denzel's lip.

"In the back of my mind I've got this voice going, 'Oh my God, what have you done?' And the thing is, he was really cool about it. It was my screen test, so he just let it run (until) the director said, 'Cut!'

"His line which I'll always remember as cool, he said, 'I love the taste of saliva in the morning!'"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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