Russell Crowe Comments on Always Playing a Dad in Comic Book Movies

Veteran actor Russell Crowe has appeared in dozens of movies over the years, and during that time, he’s delved into the superhero genre. Back in 2013, Crowe appeared in Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel as Jor-El, the Kryptonian father of Henry Cavill’s Kal-El. More recently, Crowe would make his mark in the Marvel Cinematic Universe with his role as the Greek god Zeus, father of Hercules (Brett Goldstein). In the upcoming film Kraven the Hunter, set in Sony’s Spider-Man Universe, the actor is back at it with his new role as Nikolai Kravinoff, the father of the titular hunter played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson. A look at Crowe in the role was just recently revealed in a new trailer for Kraven the Hunter, which hits theaters in October.

Per Deadline, Crowe recently appeared at Karlovy Vary Film Festival where he addressed some of his different projects. The actor brought up how it was observed that he tends to play father figures in superhero movies, which wasn’t necessarily by design. It was something he says he saw on Twitter and had to give it a response, still feeling amused enough by the fun fact to share with the audience at Karlovy Vary.

“Something came out the other day,” as Crowe explains. “Somebody finally twigged, that, in DC, I’m Superman’s dad; in Disney-Marvel I’m Thor, which is Hercules’ father; and in Sony-Marvel I’m Kraven the Hunter’s father.”

Crowe also laughed when he said how he wrote on Twitter, “Fertile. Across space and time…”

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Crowe clearly has no aversion to appearing in superhero films. While others in Hollywood, perhaps most notably Martin Scorsese, have criticized superhero movies, Crowe came to their defense, feeling that these kinds of films are only getting better.

“You know, the filmmakers that they’re using, and the assets they’re giving those filmmakers, are getting better and better and better,” as Crowe puts it. “And it is now probably simpler to give more nuance to the characters, because the audience has grown [with them]. Maybe the first few of these comic-book movies had to be very simple, but now the audience has grown up with them and they want that nuance, you know? I think at first there might have been a misconception about the way comic-book films were made and [having to work] against blue-screen. But now they’ve changed.”

Kraven the Hunter is one of many roles where fans can look forward to seeing Crowe. The actor, who recently starred in The Pope’s Exorcist, will also lead the cast of the upcoming thriller The Georgetown Project alongside Sam Worthington and Chloe Bailey. He is also set to star in the upcoming crime drama Sleeping Dogs from director Adam Cooper and co-stars Karen Gillan, Tommy Flanagan, Marton Ssokas, and Harry Greenwood.

Kraven the Hunter will be released in movie theaters on Oct. 6, 2023.

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