'Don't be an absolute idiot': Russell Crowe reveals crucial lesson he learned playing John Nash in 'A Beautiful Mind'
Russell Crowe didn’t want to meet John Nash, the seminal mathematician he would play in Ron Howard’s eventual Best Picture-winning biopic A Beautiful Mind, released in theaters 20 years ago today. As the New Zealand-born, Australia-raised actor explained around the time of release, he didn’t want to spend too much with Nash — then in his 70s — because he felt the 35 years Nash spent on meds for the paranoid schizophrenia he suffered from had made him a different person than the younger versio...
'Don't be an absolute idiot': Russell Crowe reveals crucial lesson he learned playing John Nash in 'A Beautiful Mind'
Russell Crowe didn’t want to meet John Nash, the seminal mathematician he would play in Ron Howard’s eventual Best Picture-winning biopic A Beautiful Mind, released in theaters 20 years ago today. As the New Zealand-born, Australia-raised actor explained around the time of release, he didn’t want to spend too much with Nash — then in his 70s — because he felt the 35 years Nash spent on meds for the paranoid schizophrenia he suffered from had made him a different person than the younger versio...
