Russell Crowe’s ‘Gladiator’ character was brought to life in chocolate at the Hamrun Chocolate Festival in Malta.Photo:Russell Crowe/X;courtesy Everett Collection
Russell Crowe/X;courtesy Everett Collection
Russell Croweis looking sweeter than ever.
On Thursday, the actor, 59, shared an image of hisGladiatorcharacter, Maximus, in chocolate form — thanks to a towering statue created for a competition at theHamrun Chocolate Festivalin Malta over the weekend.
“Some people get statues made of bronze. Some in marble,” Crowe wrote on X (formerly Twitter). “In Malta, they have made me out of … chocolate!!!”
“When the competition is over, I will be available to eat,” Crowe jokingly added.
It seems this year’s event kept to tradition — as a preview for the 2023 festival noted that the “main attractions of the 2022 edition were all life-size, made entirely of chocolate and refined during the festival in front of all those present.” This weekend’s festival marked the 13th edition.
Last month,Matthew McConaugheycame face-to-face with his own statue onThe View, when he was shown hisMadame Tussauds wax figure for the very first time. McConaughey, 53, even approached the figure and struck the same pose, quipping, “I feel like AI is alive and well.”
“I don’t remember when, but I did wear this suit, and I remember those shoes,” the actor said of his statue, who he joked “feels alive.”
Ed Sheeran also got thewax-figure treatmentthis year, when the Panoptikum Hamburg in Germany unveiled its own likeness of the singer-songwriter in July. Wearing a black T-shirt, jeans, red sneakers and a guitar on a strap, the Ed lookalike now joins other high-profile figures who have been immortalized in wax includingAngelina Jolie,Queen Elizabeth II,Karl Lagerfeldand Henry VIII.
Russell Crowe appears in the 2000 film ‘Gladiator’.courtesy Everett Collection
courtesy Everett Collection
During a chat withVanity Fair, Crowe shared that while he was “confident about my abilities as a leading man,” he wasn’t so confident about the “world that was surrounding me.”
“At the core of what we were doing was a great concept, but the script, it was rubbish, absolute rubbish,” he said.
“It had all these strange sequences,” Crowe continued. “One of them was about chariots and how famous gladiators used certain types of chariots and some famous gladiators had endorsement deals with products for olive oil and things like that, and that’s all true, but it’s just not going to ring right to a modern audience. They’re going to go, ‘What the f— is all this?’ The energy around what we were doing was very fractured.”
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