Warning: This article contains spoilers for Gladiator 2.
"The way I look at it, I’m putting this dress on, these rings and I'm going crazy," Denzel Washington said of his role in Gladiator 2 – and oh boy, did he mean it. The double Oscar-winner plays Macrinus, a former gladiator turned ambitious gladiator trainer with plans to take his place in Rome's upper echelons in Ridley Scott's long-awaited sequel. He's a fascinating character on paper, straddling the dichotomy of the two worlds he never quite belongs in, but what Washington does in the role takes it to a whole other level.
