John came up to me, and he's not gay, he came up and said, 'I've never kissed a bloke, can we practice?'
"I said, 'Johnny, a couple of weeks from now, I'll be over in America. They share two sons, Charles, 20, and Tennyson, 18. You close your eyes, I'll close my eyes, we'll just come together and I bet we remember how to do it'.
So that's how we did it."
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Crowe elaborated and announced: "Currently the mantle is actually held by Kate Blanchett until further experiences.
"However yes, this movie here The Sum of Us, I play a gay rugby playing plumber, and that is John Polson.
"After I finished that film I was just about to go and work with Sharon Stone, and in that movie I had kissing scenes with her."
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He continued: "So in this film I'm playing a gay man and I have a kissing scene with John.
However yes, this movie here The Sum of Us, I play a gay rugby playing plumber, and that is John Polson. You close your eyes, I’ll close my eyes, we’ll just come together and I bet we remember how to do it’.
“Jodie has had a very rewarding family life and has really grown into middle age with Russell and she wants the best for him, especially in this chapter of his life, where he deserves some peace and a happy home life.”
“In Jodie’s view, Russell has to make things official with Britney and not keep dragging this relationship on like a never-ending Tinder date.”
The New Orleans native met the New Zealand Oscar winner back in 2013, when they were filming Broken City, but weren’t linked romantically until much later.
The Beautiful Mind star has kept his relationship with actress Britney, 32, low key since the two were spotted getting cozy on a tennis court in November 2020, as seen in photos published by the Daily Mail.
Two years later, the two made their first official appearance together, making their debut on the Poker Face red carpet in October 2022.
Lending credence to Jodie’s hopes for a potential proposal, Britney also gets along well with Russell’s kids.
It was like a scene from a movie.”
If Russell’s good friend Jodie has anything to say about the matter, the movie will end like a rom com with a proposal and a happily ever after. I'll be working with Sharon Stone. How do you think it’ll go down if I say, “Sharon, kissing scenes coming up, mind if we have some practice?”’
“I said, ‘Here’s the way to do it, mate.
The way that we approached the character is the normalcy of homosexuality – it’s not shocking or surprising.
“There’s an unbreakable bond between Jodie and Russell and they’ve been baring their souls to each other for decades,” the insider, who is close to Russell, 60, says.
A movie called The Sum of Us?"
Appearing puzzled, Crowe responded in a disgruntled tone: "That had to be a set up on that one."
Graham assured him: "No but you have said...
Silence of the Lambs star Jodie, 61, dated the Gladiator hunk briefly in 1999, but they split after just a few months together, remaining friends since.
The whole perspective of the movie is that sexuality is not the thing that makes you what you are.”
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Russell Crowe turned down male co-star who wanted to ‘practice snogging a bloke'
When filming 1994 LGBTQ comedy drama The Sum of Us, Russell Crowe’s co-star confessed he’d “never snogged a bloke” before and wanted some practice with the Hollywood icon
Russell Crowe was forced to turn down his male co-star who wanted to practice snogging with him behind the scenes of a 1994 movie.
Crowe starred alongside John Polson in LGBTQ comedy drama The Sum of Us, which follows a widower living with his gay son as the pair both embark on a search for true love.
The True Detective: Night Country actress is now married to photographer Alexandra Hedison, with whom she tied the knot in 2014, and also coparents her two boys, Kit, 22, and Charles, 26, with ex wife Cydney Bernard. It’s about the love between a father and son, and the shifting responsibilities in the generations.
In a tragic twist of fate, widower Harry (played by Jack Thompson) suffers a stroke and loses his speech as the story takes a darker turn.
Russell played son Jeff Mitchell in the film, opposite Polson, who played his love interest Greg. Using the type of moves my old man would, spinning her around and bringing her back.”