“I was confident about my abilities as a leading man.
What I wasn’t confident about withGladiatorwas the world that was surrounding me.
Absolute rubbish,” Crowe toldVanity Fairin the video interview below.
Russell Crowe in ‘Gladiator’.DreamWorks/Courtesy Everett Collection
They’re going to go, ‘What the f— is all this?’
The energy around what we were doing was very fractured.
As of now, it’s slated for a November 2024 release.
“The only thing that I really feel about it is slightly jealous, you know?
“Crowe toldColliderof the sequelin April.
It’s something that changed my life, really.
It changed the way people regarded me and what I do for a living.”
Watch Crowe discuss making the original film in the video above.
