‘I’m Dead,’ Russell Crowe Says He Knows Nothing About ‘Gladiator 2’, Reminding Fans Of The Reality About His Character

New Zealand actor, film director and singer Russell Crowe says he “should be paid” for the number of questions he gets about the film gladiatorial 2, sequel to the film in which he co-starred with Joaquin Phoenix in 2000. “I’m not even in it!”

Crowe, 59, played the soldier 23 years ago, then the slave, and finally the Hispano-Roman gladiator Máximo, and as he noted in his exasperated comment: At this point, it’s no secret that his character was reunited with peace and with his family when he died at the end of Gladiator.

“They should pay me for all the questions they ask me about a movie I’m not even starring in,” he told reporters questioning him in the corridors of the Czech Republic’s Karlovy Vary Film Festival. More than just an actor, Crowe was on hand to perform the songs of his band Indoor Garden Party, his musical project featuring Alan Doyle, Samantha Banks, Scott Grimes and Carl Falk.

“(Gladiator 2) It has nothing to do with me. In that world I am dead. Three meters underground. But I admit that to a degree i’m jealous, because it reminds me of when i was younger and what it meant in my life.”

While filming GladiatorCrowe met and became a good friend of the actor Richard Harrisdied 2002. Harris played Maximus’ mentor, Emperor Marcus Aurelius.

But that’s where his sentimentality ends. “I don’t know about the cast, I don’t know about the script. I’m dead! But I know that if Ridley (Scott) decided to do a second part of the story more than 20 years later, he must have had very strong reasons for doing so. I can’t think this movie is going to be anything but spectacular,” he said to the international press.

It doesn’t mean Crowe is on hiatus. Soon to be seen inside Kraven de Jager, The Georgetown Project And Nuremberg. With this last one will recreate none other than Nazi politician, aviator and war criminal Hermann Göring.