In the hands of another actor, Russell Crowe's character's Colin's essential lack of purpose might have rendered him unsympathetic, but Crowe, whilst acknowledging the shortcomings of Colin's personality, was at pains to depict him as a man who had never quite found the right path. "Colin is rather weak in terms of the reality of his life. Initially, I'm portraying him as a rather bland and opaque person, who gradually shows some promise until you feel that given a different set of circumstances he'd easily be part of greater society. In any given performance you must have a clear understanding of the audience's perception...He's had a couple of half-hearted attempts at life, but at a very early age it was put into his head that if something doesn't work you can always withdraw and once that's been established he's never followed anything through. When life presents a difficult situation he just leaves, hoping that in the next place he'll be braver".

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