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Russell Crowe helps stunt coordinator friend reach £25,000 target for life-changing surgery

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Russell Crowe.Charlie Allan teaches and performs combat in film and television, having worked with Crowe on Gladiator as well as Robin Hood.In August this year, Allan injured his leg while building an access platform to his gym, resulting an arterial thrombosis diagnosis (where a blood clot develops in an artery).Allan is now in need of a procedure known as an Endovascular Thrombectomy.

The procedure, which combat expert is hoping to have in Europe, costs around £25,000, prompting the GoFundMe appeal.In addition to sharing the appeal on social media, Crowe also donated £5,000 of his own money to help Allan reach his target.If you ever saw the first Gladiator, the barbarian leader who tosses the severed head of a Roman emissary back towards the Roman line in a display of defiance, is Charlie Allan.

We also worked together on Robin Hood. He is a great bloke & a good friend. https://t.co/Wd2jCJ17H7— Russell Crowe (@russellcrowe) November 23, 2024Speaking to the PA news agency, Allan said (via the Belfast Telegraph): “Yeah it was a big surprise because I asked him not to (donate)!

He’s been kind to me in so many ways. I never ask Russell for anything.He continued: “I get inundated with people throwing scripts at me wanting me to ask Russell to read the script – which I don’t do – and I guess that’s why we are friends.

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