London, May 18 (ANI): Russell Crowe has said that the set of his new epic ‘Robin Hood’ was dangerous - a lot of people from the crew ended up with serious injuries during the shoot.

The Oscar-winner plays the English folk hero in Sir Ridley Scott’s adaptation of the classic tale, which also stars Cate Blanchett as Maid Marion.

The movie includes several high-action battle scenes where hundreds of extras play out fight sequences - and Crowe admits many of the actors suffered for their art on the movie battlefield.

“We had 15 people carried off a battlefield at one point. One guy got his eye poked out with a pike. Another guy broke an arm and a leg falling off a horse. The scale of it is enormous… In this film you had 130 horses doing a full-speed gallop charge into 600 guys on the ground. Every man on a horse did half-a-dozen fight moves before spinning around and coming back,” The Daily Express quoted the actor as telling the Mirror.

Crowe revealed that everyone including the director himself was involved in the action scenes.

“Ridley jumped into the waves and grabbed this 15-ton barge with both hands, bum, knee and all, and starts trying to push it out of the shot. When it was clear he was not going to win his lone battle against the barge he looked back at the beach and said, ‘Well, what are you waiting for?’ That’s leadership,” Crowe added. (ANI)