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Was Russell Crowe An Eighties Porn Star?

Date: 4-Sep-2007

No, he wasn’t, but you’d be forgiven for thinking that at any moment in this clip our own Oscar-winning national treasure is about to strip down to his tube socks and say something like “hey ~~man~~ mate, I’ve got a girlfriend” before giving it all up with gusto for one of his cast mates.

Russell played “John”, a recent school-leaver considering a career as a Seventh Day Adventist Minister in a promo video for NSW’s Avondale College that was made deep inside the 1980s. And it has remained safely buried there – until now. Non-Australian viewers on YouTube have zeroed in on the microscopic denim shorts to post all kinds of lurid suggestions but there’s an undeniably porn-esque air to the entire proceedings, not the least of which is Russell’s arrival on a motorbike then endless posing in a sleeveless leather vest in the fence-making scene, which comes replete with coy smalltalk between the two men in almost fake-sounding, gravel crunching Australian accents.

It’s kind of a cross between The Man From Snowy River and Inch By Inch. If you ever needed more evidence of how even the leanest little Vegemite can thicken out into a rugby-built hellraiser, we’d be surprised. Rusty sure has filled out since he was a struggling Sydney actor by day and cabaret singer called Rus Le Roq at night, and he even admits here that - long before he was Maximus - Russell Crowe did not want to be Superman - no way!

Hear it all from Rusty’s own mouth in this classic clip: