Paul Mescal Felt ‘So Incapacitated’ by the Idea of Acting With Denzel Washington on ‘Gladiator 2’: ‘This Is F—ing Stupid. I Have a Job to Do’

Nabbing the lead role in Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator II” required Paul Mescal to act on the biggest film sets he’s ever seen. The director recently told GQ that his actor “nearly died” on his “first day walking in the Colosseum” that the production built to scale in Malta. “He didn’t realize it was going to […]