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Russell Crowe has shared his thoughts on the upcoming Paul Mescal-led Gladiator 2, and he’s not super convinced. The star played Maximus in Ridley Scott’s 2000 epic, but his character was killed at the end of the movie by Joaquin Phoenix’s Commodus.
In the upcoming sequel, Mescal plays Commodus’ nephew, Lucius Verus. Few details beyond that have been confirmed, but Scott has previously said his character has been "living in the wilderness" and is estranged from his mother.
Crowe goes on to say that he feels a bit of sadness that the follow-up is happening without him. "I reflect back and the age I was when I made that film and all the things that came after it and the doors that that particular movie opened for me," he added. "So there’s definitely a tinge, and this is just being purely honest, a tinge of melancholy, a tinge of jealousy, because I remember when I had tendons so…"
Gladiator 2 is arriving in theaters later this year and is currently going through some reshoots in the UK. Thanks to the public nature of the scenes that are filming too, we’ve had our first look at Mescal in character for the new movie. There’s also been a trailer that’s debuted behind closed doors, which reportedly features everything from man-eating monkeys to gladiators fighting sharks.
