CNNW The Movies December 25, 2019
With gladiator, the producer came into my office and said, listen, i want you to look at this first before you even read anything. And he showed me this painting. It was the corner of clearly the coliseum, so hes standing over a slave, who is about to get killed. Hes looking up for permission at a guy who is clearly nero, who is doing that, in other words, kill him. And i said, ill do it. He said, you havent read the script. I said, i think we can get this right. Lets do it. Are you not entertained . Are you not entertained . Is this not why you are here . I must have had half a dozen phone ca...