Russell Crowe has Sharon Stone to thank for helping him break into Hollywood after fighting to have the New Zealand-born actor cast in 1995 western The Quick And The Dead.The Sam Raimi movie served as Crowe’s American film debut, but he was almost passed over for the role of Cort – until Stone, who starred in the project and served as a producer, saved the day.“I used to say my theory of Los Angeles was you have to be careful because they will nice you to death,” Crowe quipped during an appearance on U.S.
talk show Late Night with Seth Meyers.“They will nice you so much that you think everything’s going to go well for you, and then you realise X amount of time later that you got nothing out of all that niceness.”He continued, “It took me.
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