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 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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Its something that changed my life, really.