Paul Mescal has confirmed he has completed filming the Gladiator sequel.
Director Ridley Scott introduced he had written the sequel for his 2000 unique movie again in 2021; by January 2023, Mescal was in talks to star within the movie. The solid can also be set to characteristic Pedro Pascal and Denzel Washington.
Showing on The Graham Norton Present final evening (January 19), Mescal advised Norton he had completed filming the day earlier than, joking: “I survived it”.
When Norton requested for a possible launch date, Mescal first mentioned: “Any individual’s going to assassinate me if I say something additional.”
However then the actor relented, saying audiences would possibly be capable of see Gladiator 2 in “Thanksgiving this yr”.
Mescal additionally opened up in regards to the casting course of for the sequel, revealing he was performing A Streetcar Named Need when he bought the decision.
“I used to be doing Streetcar Named Need and that’s when Sir Ridley Scott known as and mentioned, ‘do you wanna do that?’,” he recalled.
“I used to be like, is the Pope Catholic? Yeah!”
Scott has beforehand defined his ideas on casting Mescal because the main function in his upcoming film, saying he got here throughout the Irish actor by Regular Folks: “It’s not my sort of present however I noticed 4 episodes in a row – growth, growth, growth.”
“I used to be considering, ‘Who the hell is that this Paul Mescal?’,” he continued. “After which I watched the entire sequence. After which, out of the blue, Gladiator 2 got here up, as a result of the script was working fairly nicely. And I stored eager about Paul. And that was it.”
In different information, Mescal has confessed he can be “profoundly depressed” if Gladiator 2 made him any extra well-known.
