Michael Jackson Played Childish Pranks With Me For More Than Two Years, Says Actor Russell Crowe

There are many faces of late pop icon Michael Jackson and being a prankster is one of them. The “Bad” singer was a kid at heart and use to play childish pranks with Hollywood actor Russell Crowe. The “Gladiator” actor talked about Jackson's silly pranks in his recent interview with a website that and said the singer continued doing it for “two or three years.”

“I never met him, never shook his hand, but he found out the name I stayed in hotels under, so it didn’t matter where I was, he’d ring up do this kind of thing, like you did when you were 10, you know,” Crowe is quoted as saying to The Guardian in an exclusive interview. The actor also added that Jackson would always find out the fake names under which he would book a hotel in his names and call him up by those names. “‘Is Mr Wall there? Is Mrs Wall there? Are there any Walls there? Then what’s holding the roof up? Ha ha,’” Crowe said asking that people are “supposed to grow out of doing that, right?”

Apart from talking about the late King of Pop and his pranks, Crowe also recalled about a terrifying time in his life when he received a kidnap threat from terrorist organisation al-Qaida in 2001. The actor was given security protection by FBI for two years, even when he attended the Golden Globe Awards. The actor joked that people would mock at him for having 16 security men with him. The “Noah” actor said that people were like: “‘Look at him, he thinks he’s f-cking Elvis.'”

The 50-year-old actor has also turned into a director now with his film, “The Water Diviner,” where he also plays the lead. The actor told the website that he “need it to be commercially successful” because that will give him the freedom to do what he wants. The actor also added that the film has already achieved a box-office success in Australia but that does not satisfy Crowe, who said that he “still got a way to go around the world, to get to the point where it’s actually making a commercial return.”

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