Why Russell Crowe Is Still Stunned Gladiator Won An Oscar

At the start of production, Ridley Scott even explained to Russell Crowe that Gladiator’s script only had two acts.

Whilst there, Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe helped to lead a writing team that worked on pages over one weekend and while they were on set.

In fact, Russell Crowe has now admitted that when they begun filming on the 2000 epic, only a paltry number of pages had actually been written.