Russell Crowe shared that the last time he watched Gladiator, he did so inside the actual Colosseum in Rome. Standing where his on-screen arena was filmed, he felt embarrassed by how much attention he'd received for the role. The meta-moment of an actor watching himself die in the gladiatorial arena where the real thing happened captures cinema's rare ability to bend reality back on itself.
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