{"id":14206,"date":"2023-05-18T10:46:52","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T10:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/?p=14206"},"modified":"2023-05-29T07:46:40","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T07:46:40","slug":"russel-crowe-hated-script-of-gladiator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nerdism.com\/russel-crowe-hated-script-of-gladiator\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell Crowe Hated The Script Of Ridley Scott’s Gladiator And Was About To Leave Via Plane"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Russel Crowe is best known for his role as Maximus Decimus Meridius in the infamous film Gladiator. But would you believe that this almost didn’t happen because Russel despised the script? Yes, his Oscar-winning performance was based on a script he thought was garbage, with strange sequences that made no sense. The film was about his character’s vengeance for the murder of his son and wife, but here’s what he had to say about the script.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nAt the core of what we were doing was a great concept, but the script was rubbish, absolute rubbish. It had all these sorts of strange sequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of them was about chariots and how famous gladiators \u2014 and this is all true \u2014 used certain types of chariots and how famous gladiators had endorsement deals for olive oil and things like that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s all true, but it\u2019s just not going to ring right to a modern audience, they\u2019re going to, \u2018What the f*** is all this?\u2019<\/em><\/p>\nRussel Crowe<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n