Russell Crowe and Cate Blanchett opened the Cannes Film Festival with the photocall for their movie Robin Hood along with producer Brian Grazer. Russell made it a family affair by bringing along his sons Charles (six) and Tennyson (three) and admits they are more into Harrison Ford more than him:

“They are deeply entranced in ‘Indiana Jones’ at the moment. They think Harrison Ford is a significantly better actor than their father and they really like to meet him.

“They are interested in ‘Robin Hood’ and when the bows and arrows come out they get pretty excited but at the moment their obsession is the work, life and times of Dr. Indiana Jones.”

He did get the kids to see Robin Hood, but they weren’t into it so much:

“I tried to get them to see Robin Hood on a day that they were terribly jet lagged so we didn’t get too far into it but one of these days we’ll do it.

“That’s the thing about this movie. It’s shot in such a way that even though it’s big and bold it doesn’t have the blood splattering, heads being severed sort of aspects to it that Gladiator does.”

“I thought, I’ll take them to this as the first one of my films they’ll see.

“They were so excited, and they got to the screening room and were going crazy. Five minutes into the film, my oldest boy, Charlie, is like, ‘Oh dad, can we go home now?’ And my little one keeps calling out, ‘Dad, when are you going to get a horse?’

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