Set 20 years after the death of Russell Crowe's Maximus, Gladiator 2 follows a grown-up Lucius Verus (Paul Mescal) as he is enslaved and sold as a gladiator. After escaping Rome as a child ...

We’re 16 years on from the events of that now-canonical first film, and our new hero, Paul Mescal’s Lucius Verus, has grown from Commodus’s imperilled nephew at the end of Gladiator to a ...

Gladiator II develops the relationship between its protagonist, Lucius Verus, and that of his predecessor ... Lucius was part ...

His co-star Mescal is Lucius Verus II, who finds out that he’s the son of Maximus (portrayed by Russell Crowe in the first movie) and not Lucius Verus I. The stars became fast friends while ...

By Carly Thomas Associate Editor Gladiator II, directed by Ridley Scott, sees Mescal playing a grown-up Lucius Verus II, a nephew to emperor Commodus from the original film, played by Joaquin Phoenix.

By Kirsten Chuba Events Editor The film sees Mescal playing a grown-up Lucius Verus II, a nephew of Emperor Commodus from the original film, played by Joaquin Phoenix. Lucius returns to Rome after ...

In the sequel, Mescal plays the grown-up Lucius Verus II, the son of Crowe’s character, Maximus, who ends up forced into slavery and becomes a gladiator to earn his freedom, much like his dad ...

Mescal — who plays Lucius Verus, the grown son of Russell Crowe’s character from the first “Gladiator,” released in 2000 — spoke in awe about Scott’s ability to shoot the film’s ...

Following the death of Antoninus Pius in 161 CE, Lucius Verus ruled as co-emperor with his adoptive brother Marcus Aurelius until his own death in 169 CE (see coin 26). As an heir to the emperor, he ...

Icas94 / De Agostini Picture Library via Getty Images As with the first film, Gladiator 2 is already a highly fictionalised version of history as the real Lucius Verus died as a child and his ...

Though this is no shortage of stars in the new sequel. Gladiator 2 follows Lucius Verus, who was played as a child by Spencer Treat Clark in the original film, now an adult portrayed by popular ...