Russell Crowe is splashing out £20,000 per month on a London home.
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The Gladiator star will live in the UK for six months while he shoots his new movie Nottingham and is renting a luxury property in London’s exclusive Mayfair area.
The spacious three-floor home even boasts its own swimming pool.
A source revealed to The Sun: “Russell is coming over to the UK and wanted somewhere comfortable for his family.
“The house became available after a celebrity couple pulled out of renting it.”
The 44-year-old actor – who has two sons, Charles and Tennyson, with his wife Danielle Spencer – will be filming Nottingham later this summer with Sienna Miller in a new twist on the classic Robin Hood story.
Russell will portray the Sheriff of Nottingham, but in a spin on the original tale, he will be portrayed positively, opposite a villainous Robin Hood.
Director Ridley Scott is said to want The Dark Knight actor Christian Bale to play Robin.
The film is scheduled for release in November 2009.
