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Gladiator: Ridley Scott says Joaquin Phoenix threatened to stop unique movie

By Editorial Board Published November 8, 2024 3 Min Read
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Gladiator: Ridley Scott says Joaquin Phoenix threatened to stop unique movie

Gladiator director Ridley Scott says he needed to persuade Joaquin Phoenix to remain on the primary film, after the Joker star threatened to stop.

Phoenix, 50, performed the corrupt Roman emperor Commodus within the first movie, and was nominated for an Oscar for his efficiency.

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Paul Mescal and director Ridley Scott on the set of Gladiator II. Pic: Paramount Footage

Scott advised The New York Instances: “[Joaquin] was in his prince’s outfit saying, ‘I can’t do it’ – I said, ‘What?’ And Russell [Crowe] said, ‘This is terribly unprofessional’.”

The 86-year-old filmmaker stated he used his closeness to Phoenix to influence him to remain on.

“I can act as a big brother or dad. But I’m quite a friend of Joaquin’s. Gladiator was a baptism of fire for both of us in the beginning,” he stated.

Scott and Phoenix additionally labored collectively in 2023 on historic film Napoleon, by which Phoenix starred because the capricious French common.

Gladiator II picks up 20 years after the unique movie, which picked up 4 Oscars.

It marks Paul Mescal’s first large studio film, enjoying Roman warrior Lucius Verus, who can be Maximus’s secret son, and a toddler character within the unique film.

Mescal has beforehand stated Scott supplied him the function after an off-the-cuff assembly of round half-an-hour.

Pic: Paramount Pictures

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Mescal and Pedro Pascal. Pic: Paramount Footage

Russell Crowe: ‘A tinge of jealousy’

However the sequel doesn’t function Australian actor Russell Crowe, who received an Oscar for his starring unique efficiency in 2000, however whose character died on the finish of the primary movie.

Scott advised The New York Instances, whereas there had been discussions with Crowe about the potential for bringing his character again from the lifeless, finally it didn’t work out.

“I do have extremely fond memories of [Gladiator]. And, to be completely honest, there’s a tinge of jealousy because I certainly wish I was back at being, you know, 35, 36, in a certain way, so I could have that kind of experience again.”

Scott additionally revealed Barry Keoghan had initially been slated to seem within the sequel as a villain, however a conflict with the filming of Saltburn dominated him out of the function.

Gladiator II additionally stars Pedro Pascal, Denzel Washington, Connie Nielsen and Sir Derek Jacobi. It’s out in UK cinemas on Friday 15 November.

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