By Katie Storey For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 23:32 BST, 27 June 2019 | Updated: 23:32 BST, 27 June 2019
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Russell Crowe turned down the opportunity to star in a major Hollywood biopic.
Speaking to Nova FM's Fitzy and Wippa on Sunday, the actor revealed he was offered his 'dream role' to play musician Johnny Cash in 2005 movie Walk The Line.
Russell explained that he decided against going ahead with the role because he felt that taking it would have led to him receiving praise he didn't think he 'had earned'.
Regret: Russell Crowe revealed he turned down the opportunity to star in major Hollywood biopic Walk The Line as lead role Johnny Cash back in 2005
During his chat with the radio hosts, Russell was asked if there was a role he'd been offered throughout his stellar movie career that he now regrets turning down.
'The only one I have a tinge of regret about, really, and possibly do regret is turning down the Johnny Cash biopic,' he confessed.
'It was one of those things of internal morality. It was like, "This is a dream job for me!" I'd been playing, singing Johnny Cash songs since I was a little boy, but I felt that I would be then getting stuff that I hadn't earned.'
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