Nearly 25 years later, 'Gladiator' director Ridley Scott revealed that Joaquin Phoenix almost backed out of his ...

Joaquin Phoenix tried quitting “Gladiator” mid-shoot before being persuaded to stay by Ridley Scott, the director said in an ...

"Gladiator" director Ridley Scott recently told The New York Times (via Entertainment Weekly) that Russell Crowe told Joaquin ...

Gladiator' was a "baptism of fire for both of us in the beginning," Ridley Scott said of how he and Joaquin Phoenix ...

But I’m quite a friend of Joaquin’s. Gladiator was a baptism of fire for both of us in the beginning." Representatives for ...

Phoenix made headlines over the summer after backing out of a gay romance flick directed by Todd Haynes just five days before filming began.

Scott addressed the topic in a new interview with The New York Times, in which he was actually discussing Barry Keoghan, who had to drop out of Gladiator II. “Barry is one of the good ones, the same ...

Joaquin Phoenix was told he was being “unprofessional” by Russell Crowe on the set of ‘Gladiator’. The Oscar-winner, 50, is ...

Joaquin Phoenix had hesitations about his now iconic role in the 2000 historical epic Gladiator, and almost dropped out, ...

Russell Crowe reportedly told his co-star Joaquin Phoenix he was being “unprofessional” on the set of Gladiator. Phoenix, 50, ...

Joaquin Phoenix’s plan to quit the original and working with a “fractious” Denzel Washington. “I feel alive when I’m doing something at this level,” Ridley Scott said of finishing “Gladiator II” while ...