Seems there is a critical consensus that Paul Mescal was miscast in Gladiator 2

GLAIDIATOR!!!!

He was cute on the red carpet at the premier with Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc.

But Pedro?!

Gladiator II, On the Rocks

Isn't he too.....petit?.... to be a Gladiator?

Premiere

Is the “Our Dear Paul” troll shaking and crying?

I need a MAN!

CONCITATIO ET CLAMATIO!

Humiliating

This has to be one of the worst marketed-to-men movies I have ever seen

There’s having

r11 Wtf was that

[quote]But he’s terrible at giving the rousing speeches that were so iconic in Gladiator and that Gladiator II

Honestly the first red flag in the movie for me, which I could only stomach 20 minutes of, thanks to the clunky script you also mentioned.

Official discussion thread for this film opened earlier today on the movies subreddit and the consensus seems to be that he lacks the screen presence Crowe had – "He's a fine actor, just not a movie star." Which made me chuckle, given all the fawning over him a certain poster here has performed in the past couple of years. They did add a caveat that this is his first major role, so he might eventually settle into this whole star thingy.

R11

Well, as is the current costum what the trailer does not reveal is that it´s actually a musical. The lyrics of the 11 o´clock number are quite suggestiv.

Oh, Macrinus, your strength pulls me near, But Marcus, oh Marcus, you drown out my fear, In this coliseum, where love feels like war, Two gladiators, but I can’t choose anymore.

I like movies about gladiators.

He's no Richard Burton.

He wasn't miscast. He just wasn't up to the part.

He was miscast; he's too boyish.

Sensitive, depressed, introspective young-ish men only from now on, thanks.

Sadiator?

[quote] He was cute on the red carpet at the premier

Oh, dear.

They needed a real man. Like Timothee Chalamet

That does seem to be an undercurrent in the reviews, but there also seems to be a tendency to approach it as if he were supposed to be playing the Russell Crowe role rather than a different character with a different personality. (Haven't seen the movie yet, so I can't offer my own two cents.)

He’s not that good looking. Kind of a potato face.

[quote] But he’s terrible at giving the rousing speeches that were so iconic in Gladiator

Good point. That’s how I knew the original movie was going to be great. At the beginning Crowe commands his troops and says the line, “What we do now echoes in eternity” which is quite OTT to hear in the 21st century but he sold it.

This probably should have been made a decade ago with Henry Cavill.

Who could play it now?

Maybe Theo James? He usually comes off as a sex offender during normal romantic scenes, so I could imagine him turning his hand to epics easily.

Alex Pettyfer

Aaron Taylor-Johnson

Taylor Johnson would be good.

They should've kept Spencer Treat Clark from the first film. He is still in the industry and I hate when they recast characters.

They propped him up with Pedro Pascal and Denzel Washington, and he sort of disappeared. Too bad. I wanted to like it. If we're considering other options for the role, we need to look at the action thriller genre. Not Gerard Butler because he is too old to do it, and he is definitely not A list, but someone like that would have been better.

It wasn't like it was bad. At times it was like the Three Amigos and then there's this colosseum backdrop.

r34, they all sort of "disappeared".

Is he the one with the worm at the bottom?