Today in news you didn't know you needed until you heard it: Michael Jackson used to prank call Russell Crowe

In what sounds like a case of life imitating an improv workshop, the fun-loving anthropomorphic can of Foster's known as Russell Crowe recently told GQ that Michael Jackson used to crank call him. According to Crowe, the two became close not long after L.A. Confidential elevated him to that weird stratum of celebrity where Australian tough guys regularly mingle with developmentally arrested pop singers and talk about their childhoods, and discovered that the two shared a similar sense of humor. Crowe says Jackson used to call and try to convince him he was “in trouble,” saying, “A gruff voice would say something was wrong, then this tiny little voice said, ‘Don't worry. This is Michael.’”