If Crowe's performance in A Good Year seems effortless, making it was easy. "There was no striving," he said. "You have to feel everything that's around you, be light on your feet, trippingly off the tongue. That's how you do good work."
While Crowe, in an interview, seemed resistant to the idea that there's something enjoyably movie-starry about the banker he plays in A Good Year (few humble actors would cop to that, anyway), Scott said that is exactly what he wanted from Crowe — "something classic."



