News culture 'It's a dirty word' This Ridley Scott's Gladiator 2 Star Lashes Out at Those Who Call Movies 'Content'
Published on 08/11/2024 at 12:20
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Soon to star in the second part of Gladiator, Paul Mescal values the importance of words and does not like people to compare filmmaking to this type of content. For him, “it’s a dirty word.”
Paul Mescal and the importance of words
Paul Mescal, the next star of the Gladiator saga, doesn't like people comparing filmmaking to content creation and wants to use the right terms. The actor actually spoke to journalists from the Sunday Times to say that he found that calling the films “ content » was a practice « filthy » which amounted to placing influencers on the same level as authors. “ In recent years, people have talked about films as content. It's a disgusting word. It's not 'content', it's fucking work “, he declares. And to add:
I'm not a snob, but there are two competing industries. One who works with a lack of care, of artistic integrity. Going crazy, doing stuff with Instagram followers as a factor, whatever… But the other is what's always been there – the craft of film – the making, directing, lighting and design of the production. This is what keeps artists alive.
Revelation of the series Normal People in which he opposite actress Daisy Edgar-Jones, Mescal would later play alongside Olivia Colmann in The Lost Daughter before being noticed again in Aftersun by Charlotte Wells. He was also recently featured in the film Carmen, a contemporary reinterpretation of Georges Bizet's opera.
At the cinema on November 13
The film is still only released on November 13, but the first feedback on Gladiator 2 has already been received. “It was so good”we can read at The Root, when MTV affirms that the film is “really great”. For its part, FilmSpeak speaks “of an epic Shakespearean tale of hope, futility and power within a crumbling systeme”. In Gladiator 2, we will follow the story of Lucius, a character played by Paul Mescal, who is none other than the son of Maximus, the hero of the first film. Our character is settled in Numidia when Roman soldiers arrive and make him a slave. Lucius will try to regain his freedom by becoming a gladiator, notably with the help of Macrinus, played by star Denzel Washington. “Paul Mescal's work in the role of Lucius is one of the film's nice surprises,” Variety further comments.
