Oscar -winner Russell Crowe portrays an English folk hero in Sir Ridley Scott's adaptation of the epic Robin Hood. The movie also stars actress Cate Blanchett who plays Maid Marion.

High action scenes were done for the blockbuster film. Hundreds of extras had to play out fight sequences, and Crowe admits that many had to endure pain and injuries for the art on the battlegrounds of the movie.

In an interview with Britain's Sunday Mirror, Crowe said, "We had 15 people carried off a battlefield at one point. One guy got his eye poked out with a pike. Another guy broke an arm and a leg falling off a horse. The scale of it is enormous... In this film you had 130 horses doing a full-speed gallop charge into 600 guys on the ground. Every man on a horse did half-a-dozen fight moves before spinning around and coming back."

According to Crowe, director Scott also had to take some risks in order to ensure that perfect shots were captured. He was heavily engaged with the action sequences that he even dived into the sea on one of the beach battle scenes.

"Ridley jumped into the waves and grabbed this 15-ton barge with both hands, bum, knee and all, and starts trying to push it out of the shot. When it was clear he was not going to win his lone battle against the barge he looked back at the beach and said, 'Well, what are you waiting for?' That's leadership," the actor added.