Russell CroweMarvel’s version of Zeus Thor: Love and thunder it was interesting. I thought it was too over the top, but some fans seemed to like it. It turns out that Marvel Studios and the director Taika Waititi he originally wanted him to use the same voice he used as Maximus in Gladiator for the film, but Crowe had a different idea. He wanted to have a Greek accent. The actor explained:
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“[Taika Waititi] sort of saying, ‘Listen, I’ve come up with this thing and I don’t know if you’re going to respond, but you know what, I’m thinking about all the different roles you’ve played, you know, how about a Greek god?’ They are asking me to play the role with the same voice as Massimo. I called his voice ‘Royal Shakespeare Company two pints after lunch’. This fake upper-class kind of voice, you know? So I said to Taika, ‘You can’t make me do this with an English accent. I want to do it like a Greek boy.’ And everybody was like, ‘What are you talking about?’ Zeus is a Greek god, he’s not another god from any other civilization, he’s a Greek god.”
Crowe makes a good point there, and so what Marvel has done is show all of Crowe’s scenes twice. Once where he speaks like Maximus, and another where he speaks with a Greek accent. Then they let the test audience choose what accent it should be. Crow continued:
“They came back to me and said, ‘We’ll only let you do it if you agree to simultaneously shoot every scene with the accent we think will work.’ It was good and fun, but I doubled the length of every working day I had because I had to shoot every scene like a Greek guy and then turn around and shoot every scene with an English accent too. that they would edit both together and project it both, and the characterization that got the greatest response from the audience was the one they were going to go with. The Greek characterization absolutely beat the English one, smashed it by 10 or 15 points, and true to their word, they went with that. what they said.”
Thus, this is how Crow’s version of Zeus was born. In the end, whatever Crowe did with the character wouldn’t help the quality of the film. That movie was a complete disaster. Anyway, what do you think of Crowe’s version of Zeus in the film?
by Joey Paur
Source: Geek Tyrant
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