Maximus seeks vengeance against Commodus in the Colosseum. Betrayed general turned slave turned gladiator. Unleashes fiery retribution. Are you not entertained?
Oliver Reed, who played Proximo in Gladiator, died during filming, so his remaining scenes were completed using a body double and CGI, costing the production an additional $3.2 million.
Russell Crowe famously refused to say some of the lines in the Gladiator script, claiming, Your lines are garbage, but I’m the greatest actor in the world and I can make even garbage sound good.