The two actors will share the bill in the feature film directed by Ridley Scott. Vanity Fair US thus revealed exclusively, on Monday 1is July, the first shots of the actors made up as Roman fighters.
They are about to enter the arena. Vanity Fair US revealed exclusively on Monday 1is July, the first photos of Paul Mescal and Pedro Pascal, on the poster for Gladiator 2by Ridley Scott. We see the two actors confront each other, dressed in armor, wearing boots and endowed with powerful muscles. Images in which they appear all abs, stained with blood, sweating and with a determined look, like real warriors.
In this sequel to Gladiator (2000), Paul Mescal plays Lucius, the nephew of Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix), who greatly admires the career of Maximus (Russell Crowe), who died years earlier. Pedro Pascal plays Marcus Acacius, a Roman general trained by Maximus. Their characters will end up opposing each other.
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A Roman nose
Paul Mescal, for his part, recounted in the columns of the magazine how he had landed the role of Lucius. What was once a complex has thus become a real asset for the actor. “My nose is a bit Roman,” he explained. “So it was useful in this context. This nose that I hated so much when I was in middle school – and which frustrated me – proved very, very useful when Ridley needed someone to Gladiator 2“He also allegedly won over the director during a conversation about… Gaelic football.
Vanity Fair US also revealed photos of other characters, from Connie Nielsen, who reprises her role as Lucius’ mother Lucilla, to Denzel Washington and his earring, who plays an arms dealer. As for Joseph Quinn – Eddie Munson in Stranger Things –he sports incendiary hair in these photos. In Gladiator 2he plays Emperor Geta, who shares power with his brother, Emperor Caracalla (Fred Hechinger). A feature film to be discovered in theaters on November 13.
