February 5, 2021Following his death, Crowe, Plummer’s co-star in The Insider and A Beautiful Mind, was among the Hollywood figures who paid tribute.
Crowe shared a Twitter thread recalling a story Plummer had told him about being a young actor in 1960s London and bumping into Peter Finch, the Oscar-winning star of 1976 drama Network.
Plummer had recently started dating a young woman and former partner of Finch’s, who had arrived at a party in Chelsea in a “very confrontational mood”.
After Finch followed them around “making disparaging remarks”, the woman insisted she and Plummer leave. However, Finch followed them into the car and “kept up a torrent of abuse from the back seat”.
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