The relationship between Russell Crowe and The Vatican He goes back to 2022, when the actor visited him with his family and received a formal invitation to go to the Sistine Chapel without the presence of tourists. During his walk contemplating the frescoes, The priest who was in charge of guiding them lit the lights that only light the stay when it is the Pope who comes to visit it. An honor that surprised the actor and that the cleric justified expressing his admiration for his work: “Maximum, you are the eighth king of Rome.”
But the role that he would play that same year was somewhat far from the mythical Hispanic that reached his revenge in Ridley Scott’s movie, since It was a character based on a real person. A priest who existed and who performed the disturbing role of the exorcist of the Diocese of Rome. A man whose figure had already been the subject of the documentary The Devil and Father Amorthdirected by Willian Friedkin, in the end of the mother of all mothers in such a dark matter: The exorcist.
Father Ameth was a figure controversial And his incarnation in the cinema well deserved someone’s presence with The charism of the New Zealand actor. The tape focuses on The trip to Spain in the late 1980s to investigate an abbey of San Sebastián. Once there, will confront with dark forces that they had remained latent since the Holy Inquisition and that they will end up testing their faith.
Russell Crowe exorcisms
The Pope exorcist gives what promises in a show without prejudice of Julius Avery, director of Overlord. A film that starts from a real character to take us to a horror story watered by the Satanist and apocalyptic imaginary. An excess in which Crowe seems to function with ease and enjoy, being from far the most remarkable of the whole set.
And it is that the actor not only seems comfortable in the skin of the priest, but also He faced his character with the rigor that characterizes him. This time he did not have to resort to any special dietbut if traveled to the Vatican To meet some amorth friends (who died in 2016), some of whom had witnessed exorcisms.
A theme with which the actor seemed familiar to his previous filming, Georgetown exorcismmovie that He remained in a distribution limbo and that managed to come to light thanks to the success of the one at hand in these lines. Premiered a year later, this other approach to the demonic universe presented us to a Crowe who played an actor in the skin of an exorcist. An excess of unhealthy settings that promise to have continuity with the sequel to this ‘biopic’ unleashed from Father Amrth.
Meanwhile, you have to hurry not to let it escape, since the Platform of the Great N will eliminate it from its catalog in 24 hours. As a consolation prize, there is still room to enjoy Georgetown exorcismalthough this time in Movistar Plus+.
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