Russell Crowe desires to make one thing extraordinarily clear: He isn’t in “Gladiator 2.”
Ridley Scott’s upcoming sequel, which picks up 20 years after the occasions of the Oscar-winning traditional, is set to star Paul Mescal as a rising member of the Roman ruling class. Crowe won’t be reprising his iconic position as Maximus, who died on the finish of the primary film. However that hasn’t stopped individuals from asking him concerning the film.
At a press convention on the Karlovy Fluctuate Movie Competition (through Variety), Crowe complained about how a lot time he spends answering questions on a film with which he has no involvement.
“They need to be fucking paying me for the quantity of questions I’m requested a couple of movie I’m not even in,” Crowe stated. “It has nothing to do with me. In that world, I’m useless. Six toes beneath. However I do admit to a sure tinge of jealousy, as a result of it jogs my memory of once I was youthful and what it meant for me, in my life.”
He continued, “I don’t know something concerning the solid, I don’t know something concerning the plot. I’m useless! However I do know that if Ridley has determined to do a second a part of the story, over 20 years later, he should have had very sturdy causes. I can’t consider this film being something apart from spectacular.”
This isn’t the primary time Crowe has publicly distanced himself from “Gladiator 2.” In one other recent interview, he wished the solid and inventive staff good luck however defined that the movie doesn’t contain his character.
“I’m certain sooner or later in time they’ll wish to ask me about one thing, however they haven’t introduced something up shortly,” Crowe stated. “It’s an extension of the narrative, however it’s lengthy past Maximus’ passing, so it doesn’t actually contain me in any respect. I hear that younger fella Paul is a good dude and I want him one of the best of luck with it. I feel the place they’re choosing the story up from, a younger Lucius, moving into the position of emperor. I feel that’s a really good concept inside the world of the movie that we created.”
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