Russell Crowe Proves Once And For All Where His Antipodean Loyalties Lie

smh.com.au reveals that Russell Crowe has pulled out of a movie project about New Zealand’s greatest war hero, Charles Upham.

Matt Walsh, chief executive of Taranaki-based film company Fat and Thin Productions, said negotiations with Crowe had broken down. “Russell Crowe is not interested because of the publicity that came out,” Walsh said. “Media coverage led him to walk away from the project,”

Or that’s what the New Zealanders would like us to think.

But it’s fairly clear to us that this is the final step in Rusty severing all ties with his native New Zealand in favour of a life of South Sydney league games and strolls around Woolloomooloo with wife Danielle Spencer and sons Charlie and Tennyson.

And depending on how he goes at future Academy Award ceremonies and/or his telephonic good behaviour, the nation of Australia either cries out “That’s Our Russ! Go, Russ! Go!” appreciatively or howls “Puss owf, brew…” before smashing a bar stool over his head.