Paul Mescal has a "natural nervousness" to impress in ‘Gladiator II’.
The 28-year-old actor will be taking over the lead role from Russell Crowe - who played the Roman general Maximus in director Sir Ridley Scott’s 2000 historical epic - and though Mescal has insisted that although he has "a desire to deliver", he is mostly at ease because he has faith that the filmmaker will pull off another cinematic spectacle with the sequel.