Gladiator II” may have taken over two decades to come to fruition, but star Paul Mescal is already thinking about a third installment of Ridley Scott’s epic. When asked by Variety at the film’s London premiere if he’d want to make “Gladiator 3,

Gladiator II star Paul Mescal wanted to separate himself as much as possible from the first movie.

Mescal made an appearance in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Lost Daughter” starring Olivia Colman and Dakota Johnson, which premiered on Netflix in 2021. It’s a small but memorable role in this thorny exploration of motherhood and identity.