Russell Crowe camps out in the wild

Russell Crowe is braving Britain's wild weather as he camps out near the beach to film scenes for the new Robin Hood movie.

The Oscar-winning actor stars in the title role of Ridley Scott's new action interpretation of the medieval tale, and is filming battle scenes on location in West Wales.

Russell - who has been staying with his family in a Windsor mansion while shooting scenes in Sherwood forest - had his team investigate various hotels and holiday homes in the area, and even considered flying by helicopter from Windsor everyday - but when that proved impossible he has decided to rough it with the crew.

An on-set insider said: "Russell is a tough Kiwi, he's no diva and he's used to roughing it in the wild. He's staying in a caravan behind the beach just like everybody else."

But while Ridley and Russell want to film battle scenes in the sea, they're having to battle the elements instead. On Wednesday the weather was so bad the harbour master ruled it wasn't safe for any boats to go out and filming was cancelled for the day.