Russell Crowe Reveals Why Being a Rock Band Frontman Brings Him 'Comfort' amid His Acting Career (Exclusive) Jack Smart, Scott HuverOctober 28, 2025 at 11:44 PM 0 Axelle/BauerGriffin/FilmMagic Russell Crowe at the AFI Fest premiere of 'Nuremberg' on Oct.
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Jack Smart, Scott HuverOctober 28, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Russell Crowe at the AFI Fest premiere of 'Nuremberg' on Oct. 24 -
Russell Crowe stars as a real-life figure from history in Nuremberg, in theaters Nov. 7
At the film's AFI Fest premiere in Los Angeles, the Australian actor tells PEOPLE about playing live music with his rock band, Indoor Garden Party
"When I step out on a rock and roll stage, it's anarchy," explains Crowe
Russell Crowe is rocking and rolling in addition to acting.
At the Friday, Oct. 24 AFI Fest premiere of his new movie Nuremberg, the 61-year-old star tells PEOPLE about how being frontman of a rock band — newly renamed Indoor Garden Party — provides a key creative outlet amid the life of an actor.
"It's my theater," explains Crowe. "I've done straight theater, I've done musical theater and I've done all that. But I started playing in rock and roll bands, and it's a very easy point of comfort."
That contrasts with his "life on a film set and how scheduled it is," he says. "You are on a train, and you're going to travel on that train, and at every given day, you have to give over to the schedule, give up the needs of the character, what the producer wants, what the director wants, what the DP requires, what your other cast might require. That's what you're doing."
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Russell Crowe and Indoor Garden Party in 2023
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With Indoor Garden Party, which has released albums The Musical and Prose And Cons in 2017 and 2024, respectively, it's a different story. In any given live performance, "when I step out on a rock and roll stage, it's anarchy. I don't know what's going to happen," Crowe says.
"That's why I do it," he adds. "It's that kind of unknown factor response from the audience and what you create together between the band and the audience is slightly different every time."
Rocking out onstage provides a welcome change of pace from something like Nuremberg, the historical courtroom drama in which Crowe plays real-life Nazi leader Hermann Göring. Writer-director James Vanderbilt's new film "chronicles the true story of the eponymous trials held by the Allies against the defeated Nazi regime," per an official synopsis.
"Charm is one of the most effective weapons of evil," the Gladiator Oscar winner says of taking on his character. "You're dealing with somebody who, as a certain man of courage and intelligence, was looking at the opportunities available to him."
The "egoist" Göring, as Crowe calls him, "believed that he could control the narrative no matter what else was going on. As we know, that didn't turn out to be correct."
Rami Malek, who plays Douglas Kelley, the psychiatrist facing off against Göring, has nothing but praise for his costar: "Russell can be very charming, and very disarming, and so is that character."
Nuremberg, the 44-year-old actor tells PEOPLE, is "this battle of wits, and when you have a battle of any kind, you're marshaling forward your absolute best. And that's what I felt day in and day out with Russell."
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Rami Malek and Russell Crowe at the AFI Fest premiere of 'Nuremberg' on Oct. 24
Following its Toronto International Film Festival premiere, Nuremberg, also starring Leo Woodall, John Slattery, Colin Hanks and Mark O'Brien, is in theaters Nov. 7. Among Crowe's upcoming projects are The Last Druid and Unabom.
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