By Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor “We were making a movie, not a documentary,” production designer Arthur Max says of “Gladiator,” the Ridley Scott epic that took home five Academy Awards, including best picture.
It’s been 20 years since the release of the movie — the second of 13 collaborations between Max and Scott, starting with 1997’s “G.I Jane.” (The two worked most recently on “The Last Duel,” originally set for a Dec.
25 release and pushed into 2021.) Max recalls standing with Scott in the Colosseum in Rome as the director turned to him and said the location was too small for what he had in mind. “Ridley wanted to do sequences that were unique to him,” Max laughs. “He cooks up the chariot race in the Colosseum,” the designer says
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