Paul Mescal sits down with Gayety to chat about leading Ridley Scott's 'Gladiator II'
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00:00otherwise enjoy. Thank you. Hi, it's wonderful to see you. How are you? Yeah, good. How are you?
00:07I'm great. I'm so excited. I really loved the film. I saw it at the premiere in LA,
00:12and it was wonderful. Thank you for being there and introducing it. Yeah, thanks. And I just have
00:18to ask, I read about that kind of a running joke on set. So how often do you think of the Roman
00:27Empire? I thought about the Roman Empire much more when I was directly involved with the Roman
00:36Empire than I do today. But I think I've used up a lot of Roman Empire thoughts and in the space
00:45of the last year. Yeah. So you're you're running out of steam with the Roman Empire. I mean,
00:55that's understandable. And you saw a lot, you know, of the bad side of the Roman Empire. So
01:00I don't know if you want to. Yeah, I mean, yeah. Yeah, exactly. Lucius is the subject of everything
01:07that is kind of wrong about the Roman Empire. Right. So it's a lot of sad things. Do you have,
01:13you know, your sort of Roman Empire that you do think of now instead of the Roman Empire?
01:18Like my, like as in my Roman Empire? Yeah, your Roman Empire. Yes. I never fucking
01:25my Roman Empire. I said Chicken Wings. Chicken Wings is always a go to for me.
01:30Okay. Roman Empire or the populations of cities, I would say. I like, I like knowing what's
01:40whenever I like to. Do you know the numbers off the top of your head of population?
01:47But I was like, I was in Austin recently. And I was like,
01:51until I found out exactly what, like, it's 982,000. So of course, it is that does that
01:58qualify as Roman Empire? I think so. If that's what you want. Yeah. Great. I mean, I think mine
02:04is the end of normal people. And I blame you for that, even though you did not write it. But it's
02:11yeah, it's directly involved. Yep. It's your fault. Um, I do have to ask you about the Pedro
02:18forehead kiss because I talked to Denzel and he was telling me that he also kissed a man and that
02:25was cut. So are there other kisses that we don't know about? No, every scene that I was in, I just
02:32tried to get a kiss in and then that's what I yeah, that's kind of that's kind of my calling
02:37card anyway, as it is. So no, that was that was the that's the only one for me that was that was
02:44cut. Oh, man. Okay. So did did Pedro know about the kiss? Or was it spontaneous? It was spontaneous.
02:51And he was it. Yeah, it was. It was spontaneous. Yeah, it was spontaneous.
03:00All right. Well, I will need the footage. I need you to email that to me once you get it.
03:04I'll let Ridley know that we need to get laser. Thank you. And his question is, I mean, how are
03:12you handling the nerves of headlining a Ridley Scott gladiator sequel? I think I'm doing all
03:19right. You know, I thought I think it helps that we've seen initial audience responses to the film
03:27and it's gone down really well. So I think it puts us collectively as a team at ease going into
03:32going into the next few weeks. So thankfully, people are enjoying it. Yes, well, I certainly
03:37did. I thought it was wonderful. Congratulations. And thank you. Thank you. Have a good one. You too.