Russell Crowe was shocked while he was filming American Gangster in New York City when he found out the movie's police supervisor was the same person that took his mug shot when he was arrested for assault last year. The Oscar winner was arrested and charged with second degree assault in connection with an incident at the Mercer Hotel where he threw a telephone at clerk Nestor Estrada, who refused to help him phone his wife in Australia. Crowe explains, "Oddly, right at the beginning of the shoot, there was a guy walking around the set a lot that I just thought I recognized from somewhere. He came over on about the third or fourth day and he said, 'Hi, I'm Scotty. I'm the police advisor on the movie.' I said, 'Great, cool, we'll have a bit of a chat later on...' And he said, 'No, no, I, uh, you know that night you had your problem? I took your mug shot.' I'm looking at him and I actually thought I recognized him and I had this sort of flashback to the very thing the guys said to me so I said, 'Mate, if you're that guy, you said a very specific thing to me.' And he goes, 'Oh, yeah, yeah. I said put your jewelry away, it makes you look like a Hispanic gangsta' and don't smile so much, buddy!' And I said, 'Yeah, Scott! Good to see you again!"