Russell Crowe's Cut "Poseidon" Joke

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Russell Crowe's Cut "Poseidon" Joke

Written by Arya Ponto

Tuesday, 07 October 2008

Last night on David Letterman, Russell Crowe was featured, out promoting his new movie Body of Lies. During it, Crowe mentioned an ad-libbed joke he made during filming that did not end up on the final version of the film. The joke has Crowe's character poking fun at the Poseidon remake.

The scene required Crowe and co-star Leonardo DiCaprio to make petty small talk. Leo asked Crowe about his flight and Crowe started talking about his in-flight movie. At first Crowe mentioned a certain movie he didn't name, and after one take, producer Donald DeLine ran over and told him he couldn't mention that movie.

"[He] said, 'You can't say that movie you just mentioned. Because it's not a Warner Bros movie. And he gave me a list. And he said, 'While you're ad-libbing, ad-lib from this list of Warner Bros films.'"

So skimming down the list, Crowe saw Poseidon and decided to use it. Remember Poseidon? $150 million movie that was a huge box office bomb on top of a disastrous critical reception? I don't think Crowe liked that remake either.

"I swear to God, I didn't know where this came from, but I'm standing there, and Leonardo says, 'How was your flight?' and I said, 'I watched that Poseidon.' And he said 'How was it?' And I said, 'It was like watching a Greek girl get a bikini wax. I had no idea when it was going to end.'"

Hilarious, if I say so myself. No offense to all the lovely Greek girls I know, but, y'know... Rrip, rrip.

The line eventually got cut out. Probably for tonal reason more than a weird censorship reason, but still a quirk nonetheless. The weird "never mention non-WB film in a WB film" policy, though, is golden. If that's an actual law between all studios, Kevin Smith and Quentin Tarantino's scripts would be much shorter.