Russell Crowe didn’t remember meeting Cavill long before Superman. Their first conversation was prophetic

and were guests on the same episode of “The Graham Norton Show”. The host of the program asked them about the first meeting, which took place when Cavill was a teenager making his first steps in the film industry.

Crowe didn’t remember meeting Cavill long before ‘Superman’

It started with Graham Norton asking Henry Cavill what his nickname was at school. “My school nickname was: Fat Cavill. Which was an accurate term, considering that my last name is actually Cavill and I was actually fat at the time,” said the actor, known for his athletic physique, as well as the role of Superman or the witcher Geralt. When asked how much he weighed then, he replied: My dad always said that from the age of 13 to 25 I was the same weight, only I got taller.

Norton used this opportunity to tell viewers that Russel Crowe, also present in the studio, met “fat Cavill” years ago. The Australian actor took a decidedly more friendly and elegant tone of narrative: “He was definitely not fat when I met him as a 16-year-old,” he said.

“We were doing Proof of Life in London at the time. It was 2000. We had an opening sequence that we shot at Stove College. We went there and there was a kid named Merlin Hanbury Tennyson who played my son. The scene was this that the kids were playing a rugby match,” he described the circumstances of the unique match. He emphasized:

There was one kid on the pitch who had exceptional fluidity and control, so he caught my attention. I watched him, and then in between takes he came over to talk to me for a while. All his questions were about acting. His eyes were smiling, but there was also something deadly serious about them.

Because of that smile and seriousness, instead of brushing aside those questions that I’ve heard 100,000 times and answered them differently, I simply told him the truth. It was a brief moment to explain to him that acting is a challenge and it’s all up to him. Nobody handed him anything on a platter.

He then added: “A few days later, I was making a package for the kid who played my son because I thought if he’s a boarding school student, the coolest surprise in these circumstances is an unexpected package in the mail. I decided to send something to that kid too. I remembered his name, though he didn’t say ‘hi, I’m Fat Cavill’,” he explained, admitting that he had sent the same Gladiator photos to both teenagers.

However, he dedicated it differently: “On this for Merlin I wrote: You come from a long line of generals. He later joined the army and served three tours in Afghanistan.” What was in the dedication to Henry Cavill? “A journey of a hundred miles begins with a single step.” Which meant if he wanted something, he had to get it,” Crowe said.

“12 years later and probably about three months of working together on Man of Steel, I finally asked him if we knew each other from somewhere. That’s when I saw that smirk in his eyes. He asked if I remember being at Stove and the kid’s school, who asked him about acting,” he told Graham Norton at a pub. “I asked what I told him then. He said, ‘You said they paid you pretty well, but they treated you horribly.’