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He’s a living legend of the big screen, having received three Best Actor Oscar nominations during his illustrious career.<br>But Russell Crowe has spoken about his humble beginnings as a young actor in long forgotten commercials, in a video shared by the ABC show Gruen on Wednesday.<br>’Thank you for noticing some of my earlier work,’ Crowe told the advertising-focused TV program. When you loved this post along with you want to obtain more details about รูเล็ตออนไลน์ kindly stop by our web-site. <br> Memory lane: Russell Crowe (pictured) has spoken about his humble beginnings as a young actor in long forgotten commercials, in a video shared by the ABC show Gruen on Wednesday<br>He described his early work in commercials as being ‘part of the bridge between live performance with bands and theatre, via a few bits and pieces on television.'<br>The New Zealand-born actor then introduced three commercials.<br> RELATED ARTICLES
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495 sharesThe first advertisement, from 1987, featured a very young Crowe spruiking a Coca Cola promotion.<br>In it, Crowe played a service station attendant in Alice Springs, trying to win a ‘surf action pack’ including a four wheel drive.<br> Before stardom: The first advertisement, from 1987, featured a very young Crowe spruiking a Coca Cola promotion<br>The next commercial showed Crowe flirting with a young blonde woman outside a nightclub.<br>However when he tries to get in he’s turned away because he doesn’t have the ten dollar cover charge. <br>It then becomes clear it’s advertising State Bank ATMs once Crowe dashes off to one to get money out.<br>In his walk down memory lane for Gruen, Crowe hilariously described the commercial as promoting ‘the joys of ATMs, or some bulls**t like that.’ <br> Humble beginnings: In it, Crowe played a service station attendant in Alice Springs, trying to win a ‘surf action pack’ including a four wheel drive<br>’The third one was quite a significant gig at the time,’ Crowe recalled.
‘Every young actor my age was going for it.'<br>The ad was part of a 1980s AIDS awareness campaign, and featured Crowe playing Russian roulette with a very young Rebecca Rigg.<br>The Australian actress went on to marry and subsequently divorce fellow Aussie and The Mentalist star Simon Baker.<br> Making ends meet: In his walk down memory lane for Gruen, Crowe hilariously described the above State Bank commercial as promoting ‘the joys of ATMs, or some bulls**t like that'<br>Russell then went on to point out he had not returned to advertising since cracking the big time in Hollywood. <br>’I’ve yet to use my fame to do an endorsement commercial, which is a different thing. <br>’I seem to be quite out of step with the times,’ he admitted, referring to very profitable endorsements of products by big names like Jennifer Aniston, Matthew McConaughey and Taylor Swift.<br> Building his profile: The third ad was part of a 1980s AIDS awareness campaign, and featured Crowe playing Russian roulette with a very young Rebecca Rigg (pictured right)<br> Not looking back: Russell then went on to point out he had not returned to advertising since cracking the big time in Hollywood<br>'[It’s] some silly idea I have about respecting the artform that I work in,’ he laughed.<br>’But that doesn’t mean that I won’t.
Sooner or later, somebody will come up with a situation, and you can be guaranteed it will be for at least one whole f**ktonne of money.'<br>’And you can also be guaranteed that at that point of my life, if I do that, you can be reassured that I have given all my f**ks away.’ <br> Money on the table: ‘I seem to be quite out of step with the times,’ he admitted, referring to very profitable endorsements of products by big names like Jennifer Aniston, Matthew McConaughey and Taylor Swift<br>
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