“It happens on every film,” director Joseph Kosinski (of F1 and Top Gun: Maverick fame) told People magazine, noting how ...

In a shocking turn of events, Denzel Washington’s powerful performance as Macrinus in Gladiator 2 was overlooked by the Academy Awards, denying him what would have been his historic 10th acting ...

His performance as Macrinus is a total scene-stealer, and his dialogue and its delivery is leaps and bounds above everyone else. If you told me he largely went off script for his performance, I'd ...

Why He’s Misunderstood: OK, so while Macrinus was a mastor manipulator—he was simply a product of his environment after being formerly enslaved and forced to fight in the Roman army.

Denzel Washington plays Macrinus, a former gladiator who now owns his own group of fighters, including Mescal's Lucius. The actor's own groom team prepared Washington to enliven the calculating ...

Macrinus’s sins caught up with him No one loathed Macrinus as much as Caracalla’s family, who desperately wanted to regain the power they had lost. To that end, Julia Maesa, the slain emperor ...

Draped in flowy silk capes and adorned with rattling, chunky gold, and silver rings, Denzel Washington embodies the flashiest villain and the colosseum’s bullpen organizer, Macrinus. In ...

He's played heroes, mentors and Civil Rights icons — but with 'Gladiator II,' the Oscar-winning actor reminds us why Bad Denzel is the Best Denzel.

As Macrinus, Washington delivers his lines and flashes that smile as only he can, playing a character who we know from the beginning is sketchy. But Macrinus’ disdain for the bloodthirsty regime ...

Ridley Scott compared one of the characters in "Gladiator II" to Donald Trump. The director said that Denzel Washington's character is "very close to Trump." Washington plays the scheming Macrinus ...

Macrinus is the puppet master driven by the thirst for power, a mindset he never forgets. Washington chews up every word of dialogue and has anyone who listens, including the audience, in the palm ...

Macrinus is infatuated with owning people, senators, emperors and gladiators. They are, as he calls Lucius, “instruments.” He sees them as necessary for Rome’s destruction and evolution.