Russell Crowe has said that he has accepted the fact that he is ageing adding that he needs to work harder as an actor to get the good roles now that he is 50 years old.
Speaking with the UK's Sunday Times magazine the actor said, "Now I'm 50, I'm not looking to be in Gladiator any more. I'm living in my own skin, playing roles that suit the age I'm at."
He added that while there are still some roles for older actors in Hollywood, you have to work harder to get them, "It changes. There aren't as many roles at 50 that you're suitable for, so you've got to work harder. That's the thing some people forget; they reach a level of stardom and think it's going to stay that way. They think it's an absolute and it's not."
The star, who recently made his directorial debut with The Water Diviner, also commented on vanity levels in Hollywood, "There's a certain percentage of vanity that is unhealthy in my business and it affects both sexes. You see it with the men, dying their hair into their sixties pretending they don't have grey hair, or having plastic surgery and using sun lamps.
"I'm not that guy. I'm totally happy - well, you're never totally happy with ageing - but you accept it. You understand that you do age but there are roles for any age if you're prepared to play them."
We caught up with the Oscar-winning actor while he was in Dublin for the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival premiere of The Water Diviner:
