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 Still, Crowe understands why Richie took his job so seriously. “Nobody wants zealotry in a police force,” he says. “You do want to know that the guy who’s got that badge is confident enough to judge a certain level of benign corruption. A man steals some food to feed his starving children. Ok, I can dig that, that’s cool. Just walk on then. But there’s a line and you don’t want to cross. I think the thing that angered Richie so much is that he believed so heavily in the institution. He believed in America as an institution and I think he’s a great patriot.” While preparing for the role, Crowe got a chance to meet with the real Richie Roberts. One particular incident helped Crowe get a feel for who the guy really was, in all of his flaws and good-intentions-gone-wrong. “My first interview with Ritchie he decides he’s going to make a good impression so he borrows a Jaguar from a friend of his,” Crowe says. “But this is a guy who is just, at a certain level, dysfunctional. So he borrows this Jaguar and halfway to Nyack where I was staying, he gets a flat tire, but he thinks if I stop to change that flat tire I’m going to be late and that’s going to give a bad impression. So he drives halfway to Nyack on a flat tire. The rim of that wheel just got absolutely crapped out, the back panel on the car starts getting whacked out because the rim of the tire is getting more and more uneven. So he gets to Nyack on time but he’s driving a Jaguar with a flat tire, a busted rim and now the back panel’s hanging off the car. This is the real man right now and that’s the day he’s trying to make a good impression.” Frank Lucas and Richie Roberts were on opposite ends of the spectrum for most of their lives, but when Frank is finally arrested and begins cooperating with Richie they formed an unlikely bond. “They spent nine months together sifting through all of this stuff and memories of what Frank had done and who had taken what and all that,” Crowe says. “The bond was formed in the fact that they were after the same people. And that bond still exists today. But it’s not surprising. If you think about it, you can pick anybody and if you work with them for nine months on something and you achieve together it’s not surprising that a bond is created and friendship is formed.” The filming experience of American Gangster gave Crowe a chance to reconnect with long-time collaborator Ridley Scott (who directed Crowe in his Oscar-winning turn ... |
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