Herald Sun
- SUN 26 AUG 2007, Page E03
Like father, like son
- By LAWRIE MASTERSON
TENNYSON CROWE might be only a year old, but already he is shaping up as the star of Son of Gladiator or a handy addition to the South Sydney Rabbitohs, or maybe both.
Proud dad Russell, in Los Angeles this past week promoting his role opposite Christian Bale in James Mangold's remake of the western 3:10 to Yuma, describes the younger of his two boys as "an extremely tough individual".
Crowe, who appears on Raising Children, a DVD now being given to new parents in Australia, was obviously impressed with Tennyson's reaction when he received some inoculations recently.
Older brother Charlie, 3, had shed a few tears when it had been his turn.
"Which you expect," says Crowe. "I mean, you're a little kid; you don't understand somebody sticking a needle in your arm."
But not Tennyson.
"With Tennyson it was a different thing. The doctor put the needle into his arm and Tennyson just gave him a look that said, 'I wouldn't do that too much if I were you'.
"Then he stuck a needle into his other arm, then he stuck one in his leg. No tears, no nothing.
"The doctor said to (Crowe's wife) Danielle, 'I've been doing this for 18 years. That's the first time that's ever happened'."
Crowe, 43, describes his sons as "completely different personalities".
He laughs and adds: "Charlie can't quite see the use of Tennyson yet. He just sees him as someone who gets in the way of doing everything he wants to do.
Now basking in largely favourable notices for 3:10 to Yuma, a remake of the 1957 film starring Glenn Ford and Van Heflin, Crowe also has completed American Gangster opposite Denzel Washington - again working with director Ridley Scott, for whom he is set to do two more films, the Iraq War story Body of Lies, which will team him with Leonardo DiCaprio, and Nottingham.
And he is quietly working on his directorial debut Bra Boys, a feature spawned by the recent documentary on the Maroubra surf gang.
"We're still researching what the subject really is," he says.
"You can't believe anything you're read about casting or any of that rubbish. I don't think it's ever going to be a biopic, not the history of surf gangs.
"We're still zeroing in on what the narrative is going to be.
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