Russell Crowe Plans to be Baptized
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baptized.
"I'd like to do it this year," the Oscar-winning actor tells Men's
Journal. "My mom and dad decided to let my brother and me make our
own decisions about God when we got to the right age. I started
thinking recently, 'If I believe it is important to baptize my kids,
why not me?'"
Crowe says the baptism will take place in the Byzantine chapel he
built at his country ranch in Australia for his wedding to Danielle
Spencer in 2003. The couple have two sons, 3-year-old Charlie and 1-
year-old Tennyson.
"It is consecrated and everything," Crowe says in the magazine's
December issue, now on newsstands. "Charlie was baptized there. And
when Tennyson gets baptized there, I will, too."
Crowe - a reformed Aussie bad boy with a reputation for throwing
temper tantrums - is more spiritual than people may think.
"I do believe there are more important things than what is in the
mind of a man," he says. "There is something much bigger that drives
us all. I'm willing to take that leap of faith."
Crowe, who won an Academy Award in 2001 for Gladiator, co-stars with
Denzel Washington in American Gangster, a Universal Pictures
release, which is now in theaters. His screen credits also include A
Beautiful Mind and The Insider.