It had all these sort of strange sequences.

Theyre going to go, What the f*** is all this?

The energy around what we were doing was very fractured.

Russell Crowe

Russell Crowe in the movie ‘Gladiator’ (2000)DreamWorks / Courtesy Everett Collection

What made Crowe stay in the film was his continued conversations with Ridley that gave me faith.

A script is usually between 103 or four or 110 pages, something like that.

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Russell Crowe in ‘Gladiator’

Its something that changed my life, really.