Performances in biographical movies such as “Malcolm X,” The Hurricane,” and “Antwone Fisher” made Denzel Washington a ...

Gladiator II is all but ready to debut on the big screen and show audiences what happened decades after the events of the first film, when Maximus Decimus Meridius passed into the Elysian fields.

Denzel Washington embodies the flashiest villain and the colosseum’s bullpen organizer, Macrinus. In Gladiator 2, (Ridley Scott’s follow-up to his 2000 Gladiator epic blockbuster), Macrinus ...

The director explains the backstory behind Washington's scene-stealing character, and how he's not ... “I’ve done a lot of damage to the body,” Denzel told Esquire. “We’ll see.

Washington’s character had been a prisoner of war, taken to Rome and turned into fodder for the arena. Still, “he earned his way out as a good gladiator ... “But Denzel did wear the ...

To be fair, that man is played by Denzel Washington. And said place of ... id that in a way that feels downright giddy. His Gladiator II character is the Roman empire edition of a streetwise ...

There’s a host of solid performances in Gladiator II, but Denzel Washington absolutely steals ... t easy to find in such a testosterone-heavy character. Though, somehow, the road to really ...

The character reportedly mentions having ... Scott also recently said that there won’t be a director’s cut of “Gladiator II.” Denzel Washington, Connie Nielsen, Paul Mescal and Fred ...

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The article went on to describe Washington's character: Throughout Gladiator II, the reluctant hero encounters a number of other colorful and dubious characters. Denzel Washington plays a dashing ...

Ridley Scott, the director of "Gladiator II," said during an interview that Denzel Washington's character in the movie, Marcinus, was similar to President-elect Trump. "[Macrinus] was a prisoner ...

Denzel Washington attends the “Gladiator II” Paris Special Screening ... the son of Crowe’s character, Maximus, who ends up forced into slavery and becomes a gladiator to earn his freedom ...