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 mentioned, “I’m barely uncomfortable with the actual fact they’re making one other one — as a result of, after all, I’m useless and I’ve no say in what will get accomplished. However a few the issues I’ve heard I’m like, ‘No, no, no, that’s not within the ethical journey of that individual 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 common Maximus in 2000’s Gladiator. The movie, additionally directed by Scott, follows his character as he units out to actual vengeance towards the corrupt emperor who murdered his household and despatched him into slavery.
“I mirror 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 individual film opened for me,” the Les Misérables actor continued. “That is simply me being purely trustworthy: there’s undoubtedly a tinge of melancholy, a tinge of jealousy. I bear in mind after I had tendons.”
Within the sequel, Paul Mescal takes on the lead function of grownup Lucius, depicted within the authentic film because the younger nephew of Commodus, the Roman Emperor performed by Joaquin Phoenix on the time. He informed Esquire final 12 months that the movie is “undoubtedly the largest one I’ve accomplished.”
“I really feel actually excited, however, like, it’s tough to get away from the legacy of the movie a bit,” Mescal defined. “I believe it’s rather well written and it pays homage to the primary one, but it surely’s very a lot one thing that I believe I can step into and make comfortably my very own.”
When requested if he had spoken to Crowe relating to the unique Gladiator, the Regular Folks star responded, “I don’t know what we might speak about. 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 ready to hit theaters on Nov. 22.