{"id":2266786,"date":"2024-06-13T10:49:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T14:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russell-crowe-is-slightly-uncomfortable-with-gladiator-sequel-im-dead-and-i-have-no-say\/"},"modified":"2024-06-13T10:49:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T14:49:58","slug":"russell-crowe-is-slightly-uncomfortable-with-gladiator-sequel-im-dead-and-i-have-no-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russell-crowe-is-slightly-uncomfortable-with-gladiator-sequel-im-dead-and-i-have-no-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell Crowe feels uneasy about &#8216;Gladiator&#8217; sequel, noting, &#8220;I&#8217;m dead and have no say."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussell-crowe-is-slightly-uncomfortable-with-gladiator-sequel-im-dead-and-i-have-no-say%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2266786&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Actor Russell Crowe, known for his role\u200d as Maximus Decimus Meridius in the 2000 film &#8220;Gladiator,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-hour-of-reckoning-has-come-millions-see-dire-message-on-tv\/\" title=\"Dire message on TV: 'Hour of Reckoning is here'\">expressed \u200bconcerns<\/a> about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/star-wars-rogue-squadron-axed-from-disney-film-lineup\/\" title=\"\u201cStar Wars: Rogue Squadron\u201d Axed From Disney+ Film Lineup\">planned sequel<\/a>, &#8220;Gladiator II.&#8221; \u2064Crowe, who is not part of\u200d the new\u2063 movie&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/actress-jameela-jamil-encourages-men-to-support-abortion-to-avoid-child-support-payments-and-lifelong-fatherhood\/\" title=\"Actress Jameela Jamil Encourages Men To Support Abortion To Avoid \u2018Child Support Payments\u2019 And \u2018Lifelong Fatherhood\u2019\">cast due<\/a> \u2064to his character&#8217;s death in the\u2062 original, shared his unease during the \u201cKyle Meredith With\u2026\u201d podcast. He indicated that some aspects of the sequel do not align\u2064 with\u2064 the\u200d moral journey of his character, Maximus. Crowe&#8217;s \u2063comments highlight his emotional and creative investment in the \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gina-carano-wins-again-hits-number-one-spot-on-imdbs-star-rating\/\" title=\"Gina Carano Wins Again, Hits Number One Spot on IMDB\u2019s \u2018Star Rating\u2019\">original film<\/a> and his reservation about continuing the \u200dstory without\u200c his character&#8217;s influence.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Actor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/celebrities\">Russell Crow<\/a>e, who starred in the original 2000 action film \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/movies\">Gladiator<\/a>,\u201d recently voiced some reservations about the upcoming sequel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The 60-year-old was not asked to join the cast of Gladiator II because his character, Roman general Maximus Decimus Meridius, died in the original. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI\u2019m slightly uncomfortable with the fact they\u2019re making another one \u2014 because, of course, I\u2019m dead and I have no say in what gets done,\u201d Crowe said during an appearance on the \u201cKyle Meredith With\u2026\u201d podcast, per <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/06\/russell-crowe-slightly-uncomfortable-gladiator-sequel-1235972023\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Deadline<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. \u201cBut a couple of the things I\u2019ve heard I\u2019m like \u2014 no, no, no, that\u2019s not in the moral journey of that particular character. But I can\u2019t say anything, it\u2019s not my place.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He said, \u201cI reflect back: the age I was when I made that film and all the things that came after it, the doors that particular movie opened for me. This is just me being purely honest: there\u2019s definitely a tinge of melancholy, a tinge of jealousy.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI remember when I had tendons,\u201d Crowe joked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Australian actor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/they-should-be-fing-paying-me-russell-crowe-says-he-gets-too-many-questions-about-gladiator-2\">previously<\/a> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">said he should be compensated for de facto promotion of the upcoming film. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1716990157394000&#038;usg=AOvVaw33qQydjIo8bet419amChif\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThey should be f***ing paying me for the amount of questions I am asked about a film I am not even in,\u201d he said in 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt has nothing to do with me. In that world, I am dead. Six feet under. But I do admit to a certain tinge of jealousy, because it reminds me of when I was younger and what it meant for me, in my life,\u201d Crowe continued.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI don\u2019t know anything about the cast, I don\u2019t know anything about the plot. I am dead!\u201d he repeated. \u201cBut I know that if [director] Ridley [Scott] has decided to do a second part of the story, over 20 years later, he must have had very strong reasons. I can\u2019t think of this movie being anything other than spectacular.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cGladiator II\u201d is scheduled to debut in theaters November 22, 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russell Crowe, star of the 2000 film &#8220;Gladiator,&#8221; expressed concerns about its sequel. At 60, Crowe wasn&#8217;t cast in &#8220;Gladiator II&#8221; as his character, Maximus, died in the first film. He admitted feeling uneasy about the new installment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":2266787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/06\/Russell-Crowe-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2266786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/06\/Russell-Crowe-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2266786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2266787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2266786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2266786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2266786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}