Little curiosity bout this scene (from 'A Beautiful Mind' book by Sylvia Nasar): "After Ron Howard screened the movie for John and Alicia, I called them. “So, John, what did you think?” I don’t remember all of his exact words, but I do recall that he mentioned liking three things: First of all, that it was funny. Second, John being an action movie fan, that the pacing was fast. Third … “I think Russell Crowe looks a little like me.” Just in case you think Nash was kidding himself, at a Q&A with Ron Howard at New York University’s film school, some mathematicians from the Courant Institute came up to Ron Howard to tell him that John Nash actually had looked like Russell Crowe in the white T-shirt scene. "