Actor hits £25k goal for leg treatment with help from friend Russell Crowe

An histrion and stunt coordinator who injured his limb has reached his £25,000 fundraising people for attraction with the assistance of prima and person Russell Crowe.

Charlie Allan, 61, from the Scottish Borders, teaches and performs combat successful movie and television, having worked with Crowe connected Gladiator arsenic good arsenic Robin Hood.

The brace became bully friends and the Australian starring antheral adjacent gave Mr Allan a speaking portion once.

But successful August this twelvemonth Mr Allan injured his limb portion gathering an entree level to his gym, resulting successful an arterial thrombosis diagnosis (where a humor clot develops successful an artery).

A erstwhile wounded prevented him from having a vein grafted from his close limb but a process known arsenic an Endovascular Thrombectomy could spot Mr Allan connected the roadworthy to recovery.

The procedure, which the combat adept is hoping to person successful Europe, comes with costs amounting to astir 25,000 euros, prompting the GoFundMe appeal.

Mr Allan asked Crowe to stock the fundraiser but joked the Gladiator prima went “against my wishes” erstwhile helium donated £5,000 arsenic well.

He told the PA quality agency: “Yeah it was a large astonishment due to the fact that I asked him not to (donate)!

“He’s been benignant to maine successful truthful galore ways.

“I ne'er inquire Russell for anything.

“I get inundated with radical throwing scripts astatine maine wanting maine to inquire Russell to work the publication – which I don’t bash – and I conjecture that’s wherefore we are friends.

“Because I respect his privateness and I respect him arsenic a friend.

“I’ve ne'er pressured him for anything, truthful against my wishes helium donated anyhow but helium besides did what I asked him to bash and enactment it retired determination connected his X account.

“I’m precise humbled, it means everything to me. The level of enactment and emotion has conscionable been rather overwhelming to beryllium honest.”

Crowe shared the fundraiser connected X with the message: “If you ever saw the archetypal Gladiator, the barbarian person who tosses the severed caput of a Roman emissary backmost towards the Roman enactment successful a show of defiance, is Charlie Allan.

“We besides worked unneurotic connected Robin Hood. He is simply a large bloke & a bully friend.”

The fundraising page, acceptable up by friends Randy Dedrickson and Stewart Flora, reads: “Let’s unite to assistance reconstruct not lone Charlie’s wellness but besides his tone and the joyousness of being with his household and contributing to the wider community.

“Thank you for considering this accidental to marque a meaningful interaction connected Charlie’s life.”

Mr Allan, who has a martial arts background, said helium got progressive successful movie and tv combat astir 30 years agone erstwhile helium noticed radical “messing around” successful the inheritance of movies.

He said helium had to beryllium “talked-into” the fundraiser initially.

First happening I privation to bash is tally astir with my small boy

Charlie Allan

Once helium has recovered helium is looking guardant to going backmost to enactment and playing with his son.

“I can’t locomotion acold without symptom and I surely can’t run, and past it’s had a compounding effect connected my legs due to the fact that you get anemic aft you haven’t moved for truthful galore weeks,” helium said.

“Randy talked maine into (the fundraiser), and betwixt him and my woman they kicked it disconnected and started getting things rolling. Thankfully it came unneurotic due to the fact that the lone different alternate was recognition paper oregon loan.

“First happening I privation to bash is tally astir with my small boy. He’s 16 months present and it’s rather hard to support up with him.

“I’m conscionable looking to get backmost to acting due to the fact that I’ve got a batch of committedness connected the horizon, truthful I conscionable privation to get backmost to enactment again.”