Russell Crowe, who unleased hell over Germania as a Roman General in 'Gladiator', has decided at long last to be baptized. "I'd like to do it this year," the Aussie actor told Men's Journal in a recent interview. "My mom and dad decided to let my brother and me make our own decisions about God when we got to the right age. I started thinking recently, `If I believe it is important to baptize my kids, why not me?"'
Crowe says the baptism will take place on his ranch in Australia. He had a Byzantine chapel built on the property, and he and Danielle Spencer wed there in 2003. The couple have two sons, 3-year-old Charlie and 1-year-old Tennyson.
"It is consecrated and everything," Crowe says in the magazine's December issue, now on newsstands. "Charlie was baptized there. And when Tennyson gets baptized there, I will, too."
"I do believe there are more important things than what is in the mind of a man," he says. "There is something much bigger that drives us all. I'm willing to take that leap of faith."
