Kraven the Hunter star Aaron Taylor-Johnson describes working with Russell Crowe on the Marvel and Sony supervillain thriller as “a dream come true”

Sony‘s new Kraven the Hunter movie is mere days away at this point… While much of the promotion for the film is leading with its R-rating and gritty approach to action, director J.C. Chandor has also described the movie as “a family drama,” with a lot of the tension coming from the relationship between Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s Sergei Kravinoff and his gangster father Nikolai, as played by Russell Crowe. For both Chandor and Taylor-Johnson, the movie represented a chance to work alongside one of their big screen idols.

“He’s a legend,” Taylor-Johnson said of Crowe in an exclusive interview with GamesRadar+. “I grew up idolizing him. He was a real hero of mine. So to be able to play father and son and have this conflict and drama in there was a dream come true.” Taylor-Johnson went on to describe the Gladiator star’s performance as “menacing” and the actor himself as “an absolute professional.”