Russell Crowe is sharing his ideas on Ridley Scott‘s Gladiator sequel, admitting that he’s “barely uncomfortable” that it’s being made.
Throughout a current interview with Kyle Meredith, the Oscar-winning actor stated, “I’m barely uncomfortable with the very fact they’re making one other one — as a result of, in fact, I’m lifeless and I’ve no say in what will get completed. However a few the issues I’ve heard I’m like, ‘No, no, no, that’s not within the ethical journey of that specific character’. However I can’t say something, it’s not my place, I’m six foot beneath. So we’ll see what that’s like.”
Crowe performed Roman normal Maximus in 2000’s Gladiator. The movie, additionally directed by Scott, follows his character as he units out to precise vengeance towards the corrupt emperor who murdered his household and despatched him into slavery.
“I replicate again: the age I used to be after I made that movie and all of the issues that got here after it, the doorways that specific film opened for me,” the Les Misérables actor continued. “That is simply me being purely trustworthy: there’s positively a tinge of melancholy, a tinge of jealousy. I keep in mind after I had tendons.”
Within the sequel, Paul Mescal takes on the lead position of grownup Lucius, depicted within the unique film because the younger nephew of Commodus, the Roman Emperor performed by Joaquin Phoenix on the time. He informed Esquire final yr that the movie is “positively the most important one I’ve completed.”
“I really feel actually excited, however, like, it’s troublesome to get away from the legacy of the movie a bit,” Mescal defined. “I feel it’s very well written and it pays homage to the primary one, but it surely’s very a lot one thing that I feel I can step into and make comfortably my very own.”
When requested if he had spoken to Crowe concerning the unique Gladiator, the Regular Individuals star responded, “I don’t know what we’d discuss. Like, I’d love to listen to his tales from filming, however the character is, like, completely separate.”
Gladiator 2, which additionally stars Pedro Pascal, Denzel Washington, Joseph Quinn and Connie Nielsen, is about to hit theaters on Nov. 22.