Russell Crowe has revealed that he almost didn't make his new movie The Next Three Days.
The Oscar winning actor is back on the big screen this week as he teams up with Paul Haggis for his latest project.
But Crowe admits that he didn't want to make another film so close to Robin Hood but was gripped by the script.
Speaking to MSN Movies the actor said: "I quite frankly didn't want to go and make another movie [that quickly] after Robin Hood, particularly something that fast.
"I think there was going to be something like a five week gap between the last day of shooting of one and the first of the other.
"In between that time having to pack my family up from England, take them back to Australia, settle them there and get on a plane again, it wasn't really something that I was inclined to do but I simply found the script fascinating.
"The questions going through that character's mind were very compelling for me, particularly the over-arching question 'would you, on behalf of somebody you love, turn into a person who she couldn't love in order to help her?' - that to me was a fascinating question."
The Next Three Days is released 7th January.
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