Paul Mescal is already an Oscar-nominated actor with a die-hard fan base for his roles in movies like Regular Individuals, The Remaining Days, We Are Strangers, and extra, however this fall, when Reilly Scott’s “Demon Warriors 2” is in theaters. Mescal will star within the sequel, reverse supporting heavyweights comparable to Pedro Pascal and Denzel Washington. The unique Gladiator made Russell Crowe probably the most well-known actors on the earth and earned him the Academy Award for Finest Actor. Is Mescal prepared for the world’s consideration?
“I do not know what is going on to be totally different,” Mescal not too long ago informed The Occasions within the UK, when his fame would develop even higher with the sequel. “Possibly it is naive? Is it simply that extra folks will cease you on the street? If that’s the case, I will be very pissed off and hope it is not true. I am going to have the reply subsequent 12 months, but when [the film] By affecting my life on this method, I might be in a nasty spot. I’ve to maintain going and make a silly play that nobody needs to see. ”
Mescal informed the publication that he takes appearing “very severely” and is not within the trade for clout, which is why he is baffled that metrics like social media followers now play a task in casting.
“What are we doing this for?” he stated. “That scares me a lot. Appearing ought to by no means be diminished to Instagram follower depend.”
“Up to now few years, folks have been speaking about motion pictures and TV exhibits as content material,” Mescal added. “That is a unclean phrase. It isn’t “content material,” it is the fucking job. I am not being snobbish, however there are two industries working parallel. A piece that lacks care and inventive integrity. Go loopy and put Instagram followers function one think about making stuff, it doesn’t matter what…however the different is all the time there, the craft of filmmaking, directing, lighting and manufacturing design. That retains artists alive. Audiences need to be challenged.”
Final 12 months, earlier than the SAG-AFTRA strike, Mescal stated in an interview with Esquire UK that he by no means contacted Crowe to debate the Gladiator sequel as a result of its storyline did not contain Crowe’s Maximus, who later died on the finish of the primary movie. Scott’s sequel stars Mescal as Commodus’ nephew Lucius (performed by Joaquin Phoenix in “Gladiator”).
“I did not know what we have been going to speak about,” Mescal stated of Crowe by no means being contacted. “Like, I might love to listen to his story from the filming course of, however the character is totally separate.”
It appears that evidently Crowe didn’t anticipate Mescal to contact him. Crowe has repeatedly acknowledged that he has not been contacted by both Scott or anybody concerned in Gladiator 2 as a result of the sequel has nothing to do with the character he performed within the 2000 unique. Ultimately July’s Karlovy Differ Movie Pageant, Crowe even urged the media to cease asking him concerning the sequel to “Ghost Warrior.”
“They need to fucking pay me as a result of I am being requested lots of questions on a film that I had no half in,” Crowe stated. “It has nothing to do with me. In that world, I am useless. Six toes below. However I do admit to having a twinge of jealousy as a result of it jogs my memory of after I was youthful and what it meant to me, in in my life.”
Paramount Footage is scheduled to launch “Demon Warriors 2” in theaters on November 22, 2024.
