Sam Burgess reveals he’s working on a movie with Russell Crowe
Retired NRL star Sam Burgess has revealed he’s currently working on a movie in Thailand with Aussie actor Russell Crowe.
Sam Burgess has casually revealed he’s overseas working on Russell Crowe’s latest movie.
The retired NRL player, who is currently appearing on this season of SAS Australia, told Nova’s Fitzy and Wippa that he is in Thailand lending a helping hand to the Oscar-winning actor.
“I’m not in the country at the moment so I’m not watching (SAS) at the same time you guys are. I’m overseas with Rusty working on a movie which is so random but it’s really cool,” said Burgess, who admitted he’s “not acting in it”.
“Russell’s got another movie over here, he finished one in Sydney so now I’m working with Rusty over here. I worked on the previous one in Sydney which was a bit of fun and we had a good time.”
It’s thought the movie Burgess is referring to is Apple TV+’s upcoming war film The Greatest Beer Run Ever, which is set in 1967 and follows a man who leaves New York to take beer to his childhood friends in the Army while they are fighting in Vietnam.
Crowe, 57, is set to star in the film, as well as American actor Zac Efron.
As for what exactly Burgess is doing on set if not acting, the former Rabbitohs lock says he is a “spiritual guidance”for the cast and crew.
“I’ll make (Crowe’s) coffee in the morning. What I like to say is that I’m like this spiritual guidance on set. Always good energy around, keeping everyone on track,” Burgess said.
Wippa quppied, “In other words, you’re doing nothing”.
Burgess is looking like the hot favourite to make it to the pointy end of SAS Australia, which is currently airing Mondays to Wednesdays on Channel 7.
He was reportedly paid between $150,000 and $200,000 to participate.
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So this role may have just come about because Crowe just wants to help him out after all the issues he has been having lately, or was it always planned as a way to get him back from Rugby years ago?
Not sure he'd be my first pick to offer me spiritual guidance or make my coffee in the morning to be honest.
Russty really needs his morning "coffee".
Only Big Sammy knows how he likes it...(long white, no sugar, no milk, no cup).
The Spiritual advice is "Stay out or I will tear your soul out through your nostrils". Big Sam growls/chants this over and over, until Russ has finished his coffee, while using his now 150kg frame to block the door.
At night, Sammy helps Russ go over and over his lines. He is in fact indespensible, as without this special help, Russ will have a "spiritual crisis"
/s, but not.
Of course it's all part of it (Allegedly). I have no doubt whatsover (Allegedly). And this kind of stuff happens at all those clubs you'd suspect (Allegedly) The thing is, the NRL Salary Cap audit team have no jurisdiction whatsover on financial arrangements between say (hypothetically) Crowe / Burgess or Politis / Cronk etc. There's literally nothing the NRL can do about these types of arrangments unless the participants want to confess..........(Allegedly)
"The thing is, the NRL Salary Cap audit team have no jurisdiction"
Correct. Sam Burgess is no longer under contract with the NRL and any commercial arrangements he has now, even if they involve contacts he made during his footy career, are not subject to salary cap rules.
Let's say a major property developer partnered with Parramatta. A marquee player signs with the Eels and the property developer, quite separate from the club, leases the player three luxury apartments - one for himself, the other two for his mother and sister respectively. He leases them to the player at market value.
The player stays with the Eels and helps the club win a premiership. Upon his retirement, the developer sells the player the three apartments for a 'peppercorn'. Effectively, the player earns an additional $3-$4m over the cap and the NRL can't do a thing!
This is how the smart clubs operate.
Didn't the Cowboys have some type of scandal like that? But the NRL couldn't really touch it and it just got buried.
Not sure about the Cowboys but that was the allegation (and I stress, allegation) regarding Max Delmege and Matt Orford's contract.
I think Mutts might be referring to the alleged under market sale of some units to Cowboys players from Laurence Lancini. Of course everything was above board and nothing came of it. Hell, it was so ethical the NRL didn't even bother properly investigating. 12 months later they stripped us of 12 competition points.
It's not ethical Super, but it is within the rules. If Lancini is not commercially involved with the club and chooses to sell units to NRL contracted players below market level, that's okay. It's his business.
However, if he is involved commercially with the club, he can do no such thing until the players are no longer NRL contracted players (i.e. retired).
How Parra got caught is that we used a company sponser - BlackCitrus - to make direct player payments (outside of the cap) to the likes of Kieran Foran. Incidently, the liquidators of BlackCitrus are currently sueing the club for failure to repay these illicit player payments (which to my understanding, was the agreement struck between the former administration of the club and BlackCitrus).
This is how dumb clubs operate.
Seriously, there are countless legal ways to 'game' the salary cap and TPA system. That's why I think the system is hopelessly flawed. Say what you want about a player draft, it does function to create parity. Throw in draft concessions for clubs that develop and nurture their own talent nursery (similar to the AFL's Junior Academy systems in place at some clubs) and I see it as a better system than this current shables that allows clubs with serious financial wherewithal (such as the Roosters and Broncos) to continuously obtain an unfair advantage over other clubs.
I'm aware of all of that. But I just find it funny those Cowboys players were getting those apartments the same time they were signing new contracts. And it happened while Lancini was chairman of the club.
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