Yet Denzel Washington decidedly emerged as thebest performance of the six mainGladiator IIactors, playing the scheming Macrinus.
This is despitecontroversy surrounding Washington’s accent inGladiator II.
The spoken language of the Roman Empire was Latin.
Paul Mescal struggles to maintain a British accentand dips into his real Irish accent in some scenes.
While this inconsistency is a problem, it is plausible that he would sort of sound like other characters.
Had Lucius stayed in Rome past his childhood, he would have sounded more like his mother.
Gladiator 2 is the follow-up to Ridley Scott’s award-winning film Gladiator from 2000. Scott returns to direct the sequel, with Paul Mescal staring as Lucius, alongside Denzel Washington and Joseph Quinn as the villain Emperor Geta. Gladiator 2 had been stuck in development hell for years before a script written by David Scarpa finally moved forward.
