This story is from Gladiator Week, GQ’s dive into all issues Gladiator in popular culture to have fun the discharge of Gladiator II. Learn the remainder of the tales right here.
This text additionally accommodates spoilers for Gladiator II.
In Gladiator II, Denzel Washington performs Macrinus, a deliciously evil arms vendor who acquires Paul Mescal’s Lucius for his secure of gladiators. Although the movie is about in 200 A.D. Rome, Washington speaks like Denzel Washington, with the New York accent of a person born in 1954 A.D. Mount Vernon. He schemes, he peacocks, he comes dangerously near saying “my man” at one level. You possibly can inform Washington relishes the efficiency, and he confirmed as a lot when, at an early Gladiator II screening, he stated: “I’m placing this gown on, these rings, and I’m going loopy.”
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He was, certainly, placing this gown on, these rings, and going loopy. In reality, I’d argue that Macrinus’s robes are among the finest elements of Gladiator II. (It’s sufficient to make you need to reside in a caftan 24/7.) As costume designer Janty Yates, who labored with Ridley Scott on the unique Gladiator and several other different initiatives since, advised me, “I like the very fact he calls it a gown.”
