More than 20 years after its premiere, Russell Crowe knows that Gladiator It is one of his films – if not the most – that has brought him the greatest success. But that does not mean that he liked everything about that tape… Not at least at first.
Why do we say this? Well, it’s all because the actor had a recent interview with Vanity Fair where he recounted his career, and then he released the detail that initially, He was not at all convinced by the story around Máximo Decimo Meridio.
Russell Crowe reveals he considered not taking the lead in ‘Gladiator’
The franchise of Gladiator He’s making noise again, you see why a sequel is going to be put together with Paul Mescal and everything. And actually a few days ago, Russell Crowe himself came out to say that he felt jealous (or something like that) because of this new project.
And now, looking back, the actor said that he could well not appear in the film released in 2000 that won the Oscar for Best Picture, which earned him the statuette for Best Actor. whatThe reason? The original script of the tape.
“I was confident in my abilities as a lead actor. What I wasn’t sure about with Gladiator was the world around me.“, dijo Russell Crowe a Vanity Fair in a talk where he did a retrospective of his career, from that movie to his new film The Pope’s Exorcist.
The actor even referred –not in a very nice way– to the script saying that “At the core of what we were doing was a great concept, but the script was rubbish, absolute rubbish“.
Why was the ‘Gladiator’ script rubbish according to Russell Crowe?
Russell Crowe explained that the original script of Gladiator it had some sequences that he found a bit strange, and that perhaps that would generate confusion in the public. This is how he talked about it:
“It had strange sequences. One scene was about chariots and[showed]how famous gladiators used certain types of chariots, plus some famous gladiators had endorsement deals with olive oil products and things like that, and all of that is true. but it’s just not going to sound good to a modern audience. They’re going to say, ‘What the hell is all this?’”
Russell Crowe on the ‘Gladitor’ script for Vanity Fair
Crowe mentioned that because of this, he actually considered giving up on the production. It was director Ridley Scott who convinced him to stay by saying that nothing was going to be filmed that Russell didn’t agree with 100 percent. So you will have an idea, Crowe mentions that they only agreed on 21 pages of the more than 100 that were available for Gladiator.
A sequel to ‘Gladiator’ is coming
This whole Russell Crowe thing and Gladiator comes when Ridley Scott himself is already working on the sequel to the story, with Paul Mescal as the one in charge of interpreting the character of Lucius in its adult version. At the moment, Barry Keoghan is in the cast and it is said that Denzel Washington was in talks to join.
For now, it is known that the film is scheduled to be released on November 22, 2024. Here we tell you everything we know about production at the moment, so that you can get the hang of it.
