Paul Mescal was underwhelmed meeting King Charles at ‘Gladiator II’ London premiere: ‘I’m Irish’
nypost.comIII at the “Gladiator II” premiere in London last week.“Never met the king [before that night],” Mescal told Variety in a video posted on X Monday. “It’s definitely not something that I thought was in the bingo cards.
I’m, like, Irish, so it’s not kind of on the list of priorities.”However, the actor noted it is “an amazing thing for Ridley [Scott] because I know how important that is for him.
So to see his film celebrated in that context was pretty special.”On Wednesday, Mescal greeted the British monarch at the Odeon Lux theater in Leicester Square, alongside Ridley and fellow “Gladiator II” stars Pedro Pascal and Denzel Washington.Describing the run-in, Mescal told the outlet, “I found it kind of hard to hear exactly what [Charles] was saying … so you’re just kind of nodding along and, just, smiling.”“Gladiator II,” which hits theaters Friday, is set over two decades after the events of the original movie starring Russell Crowe.Mescal plays Lucius Verus, the son of Crowe’s Maximus who is forced into slavery.
He becomes a gladiator to earn his freedom, much like Maximus did in the first movie.Mescal, meanwhile, was joined by girlfriend Gracie Abrams at the LA premiere.
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