Russell Crowe: The Accidental Spitter

At least that's how Denzel Washington remembers it. Washington who co-stars with Russell Crowe in "American Gangster" also starred with Crowe in the 1995 sci-fi thriller, "Virtuosity." During the audition for the film, things got a little intense.

"We had a cyclone wire fence between us and this thing just sort of dances in the wind, goes through the hole and goes straight on Denzel's lip," Crowe explained.
That "thing" was a tiny bit of spit!

"When the director says, 'Cut,' he goes, 'I love the taste of warm saliva in the morning,'" Crowe recounted of Washington's brush off.

The veteran actor still shrugs the moment off.

"He was great, man," Washington laughed. "I mean, he (did it) by accident, he didn't spit at me. His career would have gone in a different direction if he spit at me."

"American Gangster" is in theaters on November 2, 2007.

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Many more photos (Russell Crowe, Jay-Z, Denzel Washington, CoCo, Ice-T, Brian Grazer, Barbara Walters, Sean Combs, Josh Brolin, Diane Lane, Cuba Gooding Jr., Edward James Olmos, Evan Ross, Common, Armand Assante) from the "American Gangster" premiere are after the jump.

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Published 10/21/07 by

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