The actor, who won an Oscar for his performance as Roman general-turned-gladiator Maximus Decimus Meridius in Ridley Scott’s 2000 epic, did not return for the 2024 sequel, which instead focused on Lucius, played by Paul Mescal.
He recalled resisting studio suggestions during production that Maximus should have sex scenes, arguing that they would undermine the central drive of the character.
"They fought me, they sent me letters about it and everything, and I just stuck to my guns. Luckily for me, Ridley [...] he agreed with me back then, and that that was the moral core of the film.
"And when you apply how much of a change there’s been on the value of a dollar, they failed, and they failed because they didn’t understand why it was successful, because it had a moral core."
Gladiator II saw Scott return to the director’s chair, with a cast including Mescal, Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal, Joseph Quinn, Fred Hechinger and returning original stars Connie Nielsen and Derek Jacobi.
At the box office, Gladiator II grossed $462.2m worldwide, including $172.4m domestically and $289.7m internationally. The original Gladiator grossed $465.5m worldwide, including $187.7m domestically and $277.8m internationally, across all releases. The 2000 film had a reported budget of $103m, while Gladiator II had a reported production budget of $250m.
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