It’s been 20 years sinceGladiatorcame roaring into theaters and “Are you not entertained?!”
became part of the pop culture lexicon forever.
And that was when I first started to get the scale that this film would have.
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He was just completely calm."
Richard Harris is dead drunk.'
And that was the story that we were listening to in between the takes of his death."
That danger was certainly on the forefront of our minds with Russell.
I think he ended up playing soccer anyways, but he is a very bad loser.
He got super-mad at the crew it was a crew of Brits.
And they were resoundingly better than his [team] and they won fair and square.
But I remember he was not pleased."
He was so right about that, in my opinion.
Where the sequel stands
“So, we did hear from the producers.
I think it’s just a question of which film is coming first in Ridley’s very tight schedule.
And then I think it’s a question of COVID and can we get back to work.
But I would be interested in doing [the film], for sure.
I mean, it’s obviously a wonderful project, so of course I would be interested.”
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