{"id":133176,"date":"2024-11-19T18:54:33","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T02:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=133176"},"modified":"2024-11-19T18:54:33","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T02:54:33","slug":"paul-mescal-says-the-movie-gladiator-ii-is-for-the-girls-and-gays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/paul-mescal-says-the-movie-gladiator-ii-is-for-the-girls-and-gays\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Mescal says the movie &#8220;Gladiator II&#8221; is for the girls and gays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the promotion of the movie \u201c<strong>Gladiator<\/strong> <strong>II<\/strong>\u201d , star Paul Mescal gave an interview to the gay magazine Attitude in order to attract LGBTQ+ viewers as well. &#8220;<strong><em>I think it&#8217;s a movie for the gays<\/em><\/strong>,&#8221; the actor stated, adding that it&#8217;s also for &#8220;guys, girls, moms and dads.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The actor continued, \u201c<strong><em>Interestingly enough, this happened in the first movie. Boys will love it too, don&#8217;t get me wrong. It&#8217;s entertainment. People want to see movies on this scale<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d said the actor. The film has already grossed $87 million in its first weekend in theaters.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/8bU95W1-64Q?si=yBCwMsy1NvcayBog\" title=\"Paul Mescal: Gladiator 2 for the \u201cgirls and gays\u201d as well as &quot;bros&quot;\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8bU95W1-64Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the film, <strong>Paul<\/strong> <strong>Mescal<\/strong> plays Lucius, son of Lucilla, a character from the first film, released in 2000. In the story, he is now an adult and enslaved, forced to enter the Colosseum, while trying to restore the glory of Rome to the people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Denzel Washington<\/strong> and <strong>Pedro<\/strong> <strong>Pascal<\/strong> are also in the cast. Denzel, in fact, complained that Ridley Scott&#8217;s production cut a scene in which he kissed another man. Paul Mescal, meanwhile, prefers to focus on the positive side of the experience.<\/p>\n<p>He was impressed with the overproduction. \u201c<strong>Gladiator<\/strong> <strong>II<\/strong>\u201d is a film valued at $250 million. \u201cIt would be remiss to say how much work and labor went into building the Colosseum, the sets in Morocco, the Appian Way, the Emperor&#8217;s Palace&#8230;. it&#8217;s huge!\u201d he praised.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/TQwSz88ITAE?si=ZB1G9cQLAExnVHRf\" title=\"Gladiator II | Final Trailer (2024) - Paul Mescal, Pedro Pascal, Denzel Washington, Ridley Scott\" width=\"1240\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TQwSz88ITAE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong><em>I managed to save one costume from each battle armor &#8211; I still don&#8217;t know where to put them! They&#8217;re stored somewhere in the world. The skirt, the breastplate&#8230; three of them<\/em><\/strong>,\u201d he said. The film is one of the most anticipated films of 2024 and is aiming for ten Oscar nominations. It opens this week in the United States, with \u201c<strong>Wicked<\/strong>\u201d as the main competitor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the promotion of the movie \u201cGladiator II\u201d , star Paul Mescal gave an interview to the gay magazine Attitude in order to attract LGBTQ+ viewers as well. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s a movie for the gays,&#8221; the actor stated, adding that it&#8217;s also for &#8220;guys, girls, moms and dads.&#8221; The actor continued, \u201cInterestingly enough, this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3106,"featured_media":133177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1399],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-133176","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133176"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=133176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}