American Gangster- Richie

Russell Crowe gives life to Richie Roberts in American Gangster
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Russell Crowe, willing to work for the third time with director Ridley Scott and producer Brian Grazer , accepted the challenging role of unrepentant police. I drew how Steven Zaillian 's script described how corrupt New York City , Harlem and less complicated world of New Jersey acted as satellites at the time of the rise of heroin. According to journalist Mark Jacobson, author of " The Return of Superfly" ( The Return of Superfly ) , corruption had reached such proportions within the Special Narcotics Investigation Unit (SIU ) , that " in 1977 , 52 70 policemen who had been through the unit were jailed or indicted . " Richie Roberts was the exception that proves the rule , and Russell Crowe admires him for what he has heard from him .

Speaking of the first conversations I had with Brian Grazer , Russell Crowe says, " I had read five or six versions of the script , and knew my favorite , but that was in the ship's captain. Brian called me on a Friday and Ridley else called me on Saturday . Took the opportunity to ask him if he had read the latest version. I said yes and I was delighted. I asked , 'Do you think they'll try to greedy if we do another movie together soon? " And I said,' Who cares ? ' " .

But Russell Crowe was aware that a film about real people is not the same as making a documentary about their lives. "The script focuses on a time period and condenses to tell the story ," he says . "In the film , Richie does things that really did not. All that concerns him is contradictory. Nothing in it is traditional and is not someone who can be pigeonholed into a category . In fact , ours is just an imitation . "

On the set , " There's nothing like running up and down stairs with a tight Levis seventies during a heat wave in New York ," says Russell Crowe, with a gesture of despair. "One day, I touched up 54 steps , and re-upload them down another 75 , running , of course. After 10 floors, was the cowboy soaked and cut me so tight that circulation. "