Nabbing the lead role in Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator II” required Paul Mescal to act on the biggest film sets he’s ever seen. The director recently told GQ that his actor “nearly died” on his “first day walking in the Colosseum” that the production built to scale in Malta. “He didn’t realize it was going to be so big.”
But perhaps even more intimidating for Mescal than acting within the “Gladiator II” sets were the scenes in which he had to go head to head with Denzel Washington, who stars in the sequel as a wealthy powerbroker in
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