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Paul Mescal worried he would look "more like an underwear model than a warrior" after transforming his body for 'Gladiator 2'. The 28-year-old actor landed the starring role in the sequel to Sir Ridley Scott's Oscar-winning 2000 epic and he decided to buff up because he wanted to look "big and strong" to play Lucius Verus in Ancient Rome - and insists he wanted his muscles to be more than just aesthetic. He told Vanity Fair magazine: "I just wanted to be big and strong and look like somebody who can cause a bit of damage when s*** hits the fan. I think also, sometimes, one could, in striving f...
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Joseph Quinn felt "incredibly grateful" to work with Sir Ridley Scott on 'Gladiator 2'. The 30-year-old actor is part of the cast for the sequel to the Oscar-winning 2000 original and he revealed the 86-year-old director is still full of "vigour" and "thirst for life" despite the long and "brutal" days on set. He told Men's Health magazine: "Watching him negotiate these brutal shoot days … he’s not 32 anymore. But he conducts himself with such a vigour, and thirst, for life and also filmmaking, still - he just loves it, and that is very infectious. Working with him … I was never expecting to d...
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Sir Ridley Scott is developing a film about the Cirque du Soleil show 'O'. The legendary director has been tapped by the circus group to put together a picture with his Scott Free banner as the company moves into the TV and movie business with its own entertainment studio. The new studio division will be managed by former CBS and WWE executive Susan Levison and is set to produce material based on Cirque du Soleil's IP – which includes shows such as 'Mystere', 'The Beatles Love' and 'Mad Apple'. Levison is tasked with overseeing Cirque du Soleil projects across both scripted and unscripted tele...
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Russell Crowe is "slightly uncomfortable" that 'Gladiator 2' is being made. The 60-year-old star played Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius in Sir Ridley Scott's original historical epic and admits that it is disconcerting to see the story revisited with Paul Mescal in the lead role. Speaking on the Kyle Meredith With... podcast, Russell said: "I'm slightly uncomfortable with the fact they're making another one – because, of course, I'm dead and I have no say in what gets done. "But a couple of things I've heard I'm like, 'No, no, no, that's not in the moral journey of that particular chara...
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Paul Mescal says 'Gladiator 2' was the first major movie that "piqued my interest". The 28-year-old actor - who shot to fame portraying heartthrob Connell in the hit TV adaptation of Sally Rooney's 'Normal People' - was cast as Lucius in Sir Ridley Scott's sequel to the 2000 historical drama, and he admitted there was no way he was going to turn down the film. He told AnOther magazine: “The script for Gladiator lands in your lap, and you simply can’t turn it down. Getting to work on a big-scale film like this, especially under the direction of Ridley Scott, is a straightforward decision. Until...
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Russell Crowe has warned fans not to be duped by "fake" AI adverts featuring his likeness. The 'Gladiator' star has hit out after stumbling across a video which appears to show him promoting a real estate firm in Malta - with the actor insisting the commercial is using "shonky" AI to make it looks as if he is endorsing the business. He has now posted a warned on X - formerly known as Twitter - telling his followers not to be fooled. Crowe wrote: "This is going around in Malta. It is obviously fake BS, don’t fall for it. "What else is obvious is that this service/business must be shonky and und...
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Sir Ridley Scott says AI is a ticking "technical hydrogen bomb". The legendary filmmaker has expressed his fears over the potential for Artificial Intelligence to take over the globe's "whole electrical-monetary system". He told Rolling Stone: "We have to lock down AI. And I don't know how you're gonna lock it down. They have these discussions in the government, 'How are we gonna lock down AI?' Are you kidding? You're never gonna lock it down. Once it's out, it's out. If I'm designing AI, I'm going to design a computer whose first job is to design another computer that's cleverer than the firs...
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Michael Mann insists that Adam Driver's role in 'House of Gucci' had no influence on his casting in 'Ferrari'. The 40-year-old star portrays Enzo Ferrari in Mann's biopic about the founder of the iconic Italian car manufacturer but the director explained how Driver's performance as the murdered Italian fashion designer Maurizio Gucci in Sir Ridley Scott's 2021 film had "nothing to do" with his casting choice. Michael told Entertainment Weekly: "No, the Gucci movie had nothing to do with it. I met with him well before I saw 'House of Gucci'. "There's a real-world, factual intelligence to Adam. ...
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Vanessa Kirby used "creative licence" for her portrayal of Empress Josephine in 'Napoleon'. The 35-year-old actress features in Sir Ridley Scott's historical epic as the wife of Joaquin Phoenix's ruthless French Emperor and explained how she took certain liberties in bringing the historical figure to life. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter at the film's UK premiere on Thursday (16.11.23), Vanessa said: "As with any fictional interpretation, who they are onscreen and compared to the history, there's always creative licence. "It's like in 'The Crown' (in which she played Princess Margaret in th...
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Sir Ridley Scott says that making 'Gladiator 2' became "an obvious thing to do". The 85-year-old filmmaker is helming a long-awaited sequel to his 2000 historical epic and explained how he was initially tentative to revisit Ancient Rome. Asked what interested him in making the follow-up, Ridley told Deadline: "Well, economically, it makes sense. That always begins there. "I thought the (first) film was, as it were, completely satisfactory, creatively complete, so why muck with it, right? But these cycles keep going on and on, they repeat globally for the last 20 years. It started to spell itse...
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