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Russell Crowe reveals he broke BOTH legs performing a stunt on Robin Hood set... but didn't realise for 10 YEARS


Crowe said he 'never discussed the injury with production, never took a day off because of it, I just kept going to work.'

The 'small mishap' happened while performing a stunt for Ridley Scott's Robin Hood back in the summer of 2009, when he had to jump down from a portcullis, a heavy, vertically closing gate found at one of the medieval fortifications used in the movie. Crowe didn't even think twice about doing his own stunt for a scene where he had to jump from down about a portcullis, which is a heavy, vertically gate found at one of the medieval fortifications used the production He didn't return until he signed on to play Jor-El, a Kryptonian scientist who is Kal-El's (Superman) biological father, in Man Of Steel, which shot in the summer of 2011.

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