Russell Crowe Raves About Chocolate Statue of His ‘Gladiator’ Character: ‘Available to Eat’

Russell Crowe looks cuter than ever.

On Thursday, the actor (59) shared his picture Gladiator character, Maximus, in chocolate form — thanks to a towering statue created for competition at the Hamrun Chocolate Festival in Malta over the weekend.

“Some people get statues made of bronze. Some of marble,” Crowe wrote on X (formerly Twitter). “In Malta they made me out of…chocolate!!!”

When the competition is over, I’ll be available to eat, Crowe added jokingly.

A statue — which one Thor: Love and Thunder star shared was created by artist Tiziano Cassar and was inspired by the 2000 film — earning a lot of love on social media even beyond Crowe’s chants. The realistic dessert was watched by thousands of festival visitors, and some took advantage of the moment to write about it on the Internet.

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This year’s event seems to have stuck to tradition — an announcement for the 2023 festival stated that “the main attractions of the 2022 edition were all life-size, made entirely of chocolate and refined during the festival in front of everyone in attendance.” This weekend marked the 13th edition of the festival.

“Honored to be recognized by the actor himself,” Cassar wrote on Facebook after Crowe’s tweet. “I look forward to tomorrow’s unveiling of the final life-size exhibit.”

Last month, Matthew McConaughey faced his own statue View, when he was first shown his Madame Tussauds wax figure. McConaughey, 53, even walked up to the character and struck the same pose, joking, “I feel like AI is alive and well.”

“I don’t remember when, but I wore this suit and I remember those shoes,” the actor said of his statue, which he joked “feels alive.”

Ed Sheeran also got the waxwork treatment this year, when the Panoptikum Hamburg in Germany unveiled their own figure of the singer-songwriter in July. Wearing a black T-shirt, jeans, red trainers and a guitar on a strap, lookalike Ed now joins other famous people immortalized in wax, including Angelina Jolie, Queen Elizabeth II, Karl Lagerfeld and Henry VIII.

Russell Crowe appears in the movie ‘Gladiator’ from 2000.

courtesy of the Everett Collection

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In other Crowe news, the Oscar winner revealed in April that he was referring to the original script he was reading Gladiatordirected by Ridley Scott, was “absolute rubbish”.

During the conversation with vanity fairCrowe said that while he was “confident in my abilities as a leading man”, he was not so confident in “the world around me”.

“At the heart of what we were doing was a great concept, but the script was rubbish, absolute rubbish,” he said.

“He had all these weird sequences,” Crowe continued. “One of them was about chariots and how famous gladiators used certain types of chariots, and some famous gladiators had product endorsement deals for olive oil and things like that, and that’s all true, but it’s just not going to sound right to a modern audience.. They’ll say, ‘What the hell is all this?’ The energy around what we were doing was very fractured.”

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Still, the actor said he was “delighted” with the final product after “continuing to talk with Ridley” and reworking the material. The film itself ended up taking home Best Picture at the Academy Awards in 2001. And now, more than two decades later, Gladiator he has his own chocolate statue.

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