‘Gladiator’ director Ridley Scott recalled how nervous Joaquin Phoenix was on set of the 2000 historical epic,and how Russell Crowe didn’t have the patience for it
Moviegoers may not have been able to tell based on the final product, but Joaquin Phoenix wasn’t always comfortable on the set of Gladiator, and according to director Ridley Scott — Russell Crowe wasn’t very happy about it.
' was in his prince’s outfit saying, 'I can’t do it,'' Scott recalled, 'I said, 'What?' And Russell said, 'This is terribly unprofessional.'' Phoenix hasn’t hidden from the truth that he was afraid while shooting Gladiator. He shared his perspective in a 2018 interview with Collider. Neither Phoenix nor Crowe will appear in the Gladiator sequel, though Derek Jacobi and Connie Nielsen will reprise their roles as Senator Gracchus and Lucilla, respectively. The film will also star Paul Mescal and Pedro Pascal, and center around Lucius , son of Maximus, forced back into the arena like his father after his wife is murdered.
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