The film “Gladiator II” opens this Thursday in Portuguese cinemas. Ridley Scott returns to be the director of what is the sequel to the film that premiered in the 2000s and had Russell Crowe in the lead role. Now it is Irishman Paul Mescal who stars in the film.
The sequel to Gladiator began to be thought about after the success of the film that premiered in 2000 and the five Oscars it won. Between delays and setbacks, it was only around two years ago that the final version was reached.
An Irishman was chosen for the role of Gladiator. Paul Mescalappointed to the Oscar for Best Actor for the 2022 film “Aftersun.”
Best known for independent cinema and television series, he debuts in a mega production, alongside Denzel Washingtonwho plays a former slave eager to seize power in Rome.
Among the latest technological advances, colossal scenarios have been created. The Colosseum and ancient Rome, in a film with hundreds of extras and shot, above all, in Malta and Morocco.
Connie Nielsen is one of the actresses who returns to Gladiator II, an epic of power and revenge, to play the character Lucilla.
