Russell Crowe slams 'clickbait' spin on interaction with autograph seekers: 'What's your problem?'

Russell Crowe has pushed backmost against TMZ’s sum of his caller interactions with a assemblage of autograph seekers.

“Clickbait,” the “Gladiator” histrion wrote successful a Monday station connected X. “Everybody got their autograph and selfie, the transition to the edifice was kept escaped for guests, and I inactive got to the airdrome connected time. One man, nary security. Handled. What’s your occupation ?”

Earlier that day, the outlet had posted a video of Crowe addressing a assemblage of fans and autograph seekers extracurricular of a Paris edifice earlier making his mode to them to motion assorted memorabilia.

“If you needed a reminder that fans are not ever precedence No. 1 — crook to Russell Crowe — origin the feline was perfectly not having it extracurricular of his Paris hotel,” TMZ wrote successful its since-deleted X station sharing the video. The outlet besides framed the video arsenic Crowe “explod[ing] connected Pushy Autograph Seekers” successful its quality story.

In the video, the Academy Award victor is shown giving wide directions to those gathered for his autograph oregon to drawback a photograph with him.

“Stay wherever you are, don’t f— propulsion successful connected me, I’ll travel to you,” Crowe says. “Give everybody space. As soon arsenic somebody’s a d—, I’m gone.”

The histrion past approaches the assemblage to motion assorted items held retired successful beforehand of him. The abbreviated clip ends soon aft Crowe declines a petition to besides constitute “Maximus” — the sanction of his “Gladiator” quality — adjacent to his signature arsenic helium continues to motion different things.

Crowe’s temperament, blunt demeanor and distaste for definite aspects of “celebrity” person agelong been fodder for quality coverage. In 2005, the histrion made headlines for throwing a telephone that deed a Manhattan edifice concierge.

“If I ever was going to torture somebody, I’d enactment them successful a country wherever they can’t permission and person idiosyncratic caller travel successful each 3 minutes and inquire the aforesaid question implicit a fig of days and past weeks,” Crowe said successful a 2010 interrogation with The Times, describing what happens astatine a movie property junket connected the eve of embarking connected one.

“Some radical judge personage is simply a powerfulness that should beryllium used. Ultimately, your dollars are much powerful,” Crowe said successful that interview. “I’m celebrated for making movies. Celebrity conscionable happens to beryllium an unfortunate byproduct of what I do.”