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Gladiator 2 makes some wild tweaks to history, including giving a Roman Emperor a pet monkey. Played by Fred Hechinger, Caracalla is one of the twin Emperors who has taken control of the Roman Empire in the sixteen years that have passed since Maximus killed Commodus. The more unpredictable of the pair, Caracalla's only really humanizing element is his clear affection for his pet monkey, Dondas.
Did Caracalla Have A Pet Monkey In Real Life? The Real Life Caracalla Was Very Different From His On-Screen Counterpart ✕ Remove Ads The real life Roman Emperor that Gladiator 2's Caracalla is inspired by did not have a pet monkey named Dondas. Despite being one of the only humanizing elements of Caracalla in Gladiator 2, there are no historical records that suggest Caracalla actually did have a pet monkey.
✕ Remove Ads What We Know About The Monkey Who Played Dondas Fred Hechinger Got Extra Time To Rehearse With Sherry The Monkey Close Dondas is played by a real monkey in Gladiator 2, giving the animal some realistic qualities that would have been missing from a CGI creation like the baboons that attack Lucius early in the film. As Fred Hechinger revealed during an interview with Cinema Blend, Dondas was played by a female monkey named Sherry.
1 The two were in sync by the time of filming, even apparently improvising off of one another's actions. Denzel Washington even complimented the monkey, noting that it could pick up on the body language and tone of Hechinger's increasingly unstable performance and would respond accordingly. Several critics have held up Dondas as one of the highlights of Gladiator 2, speaking to the amount of work and craft the animal trainer was able to bring to the film.
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