Russell Crowe has suggested Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II failed to ignite audiences in the same way as the original film because it lacked a “moral core”.
He recalled how he had pushed back against studio moves to give his Gladiator character Maximus sex scenes back in 2000, in his belief that it would not chime with a man grieving with the death of his wife.
“I just kept pushing back,” he recounted. “I said, ‘This is a story about a man who’s avenging the death of his wife and his child. There cannot be a moment on that journey
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