Crowe slams Hollywood greats
Movie hardman Russell Crowe has slammed Hollywood greats Robert de Niro and Harrison Ford for endorsing products in advertisements.
The Antipodean Oscar-winner tells the American edition of GQ magazine he is disgusted by successful actors who top up their huge film salaries with foreign advertising contracts.
Crowe fumes: "I don't use my celebrity to make a living. I don't do ads for suits in Spain like George Clooney or cigarettes in Japan like Harrison Ford. And on one level, people go: 'Well, more fault to you, mate, because there's free money to be handed out.'
"But to me it's kind of sacrilegious - it's a complete contradiction of the f**king social contract you have with your audience.
"I mean, Robert de Niro's advertising American Express. Gee whiz, it's not the first time he's disappointed me. It's been happening for a while now."
