Gladiator star Russell Crowe has hired a real-life gladiator to help him slim down for his next film. The moody actor has asked martial arts expert Lourene Bevaart to compose a strict fitness plan to get him in shape for Far Side Of The World. Lourene was muscley, action-woman Glacier in the Australian version of hit TV game show Gladiators. The sporty blonde has enforced a plan of running, weight-lifting and power walking to help Russell fit the role of Navy captain Jack Aubrey in the war flick. One of Russell's friends says, "He has been told he needs to turn the flab into muscle for he film otherwise he will not look right. "He is not worried, he knows what he has to do. Lourene helped him out when he was training for Gladiator so he immediately contacted her again. "Russell has ballooned before and lost if quickly. He knows he had a deadline. Alcohol and fattening foods are off the menu and Lourene has got him started on a gruelling fitness regime."...
- 5/7/2002
- WENN
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