Russell Crowe’s ouspoken comments about Gladiator have changed my mind

Russell Crowe has come for Gladiator II, which he wasn’t involved with, again (Picture: Dreamworks/Universal/Kobal/Rex/Shutterstock)

Gladiator actor Russell Crowe has decided an appropriate enough amount of time has passed that he can happily rip into the 2024 sequel of the film that cemented him as a Hollywood A-Lister, more than a quarter of a century ago.

But in the process, he went deep into what he passionately believed about the original – and fought for – and has made me completely re-examine how I feel about it.

The New Zealander famously played the titular gladiator, Maximus, in Sir Read Entire Article