The four-time Academy Award nominee opened the conversation by explaining Macrinus’ rich backstory. After clarifying his motivations in Gladiator 2, Ridley Scott called Denzel Washington’s character a ...
Draped in flowy silk capes and adorned with rattling, chunky gold, and silver rings, Denzel Washington embodies the flashiest villain and the colosseum’s bullpen organizer, Macrinus. In Gladiator 2, ...
One of the most intriguing characters in Ridley Scott’s Gladiator II, the sequel to Gladiator (2000) out Nov. 22, is Macrinus, a Black businessman raising an army of gladiators, played by Denzel ...
Warning: Full spoilers follow for Gladiator II! 2024’s film lineup has been heavily loaded with big-budget sequels, some of them much more satisfying than others. For every Dune: Part Two or ...
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He inspired Gladiator - but didn’t die in the arena
You know him as Maximus from Gladiator — a fallen general turned slave who fought for justice. But the real Marcus Nonius Macrinus? He never fell. He rose high in the Roman Empire, died rich, and was ...
Who was Macrinus, the Roman emperor played by Denzel Washington in ‘Gladiator 2′, who died executed?
Macrinus is one of the most intimidating characters in the entire movie, a character played by a Denzel Washington who intimidates with a smile that hides much more than it seems at first glance. But ...
Gladiator II is the sequel nobody saw coming. The original finished with Maximus and Commodus dead and we felt confident that the story could not be continued. So what does the sequel have to offer?
When archaeologists unearthed the well-preserved tomb of a second-century Roman general that had lain under muddy clay for 1800 years, their find was hailed as the most important ancient Roman ...
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