Russell Crowe: ‘Gladiator II’ Lacked ‘Moral Core’

Russell Crowe has criticized the 2024 sequel to “Gladiator,” saying the film misunderstands what defined the original. 

Crowe, who won an Oscar for portraying Maximus in the 2000 release, said in an interview with Australia’s Triple J that the new installment breaks from the principles he considered central to the first movie.

Crowe said the sequel got the basics of the original story wrong and ignored what drove his performance.

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