{"id":8837,"date":"2025-11-04T16:43:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T08:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=8837"},"modified":"2025-11-04T16:43:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T08:43:44","slug":"highlander-will-allow-russell-crowe-to-do-what-ridley-scott-said-no-fuckin-way-to-on-gladiator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=8837","title":{"rendered":"Highlander Will Allow Russell Crowe to Do What Ridley Scott Said &#8216;No Fuckin\u2019 Way&#8217; to on Gladiator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Russell Crowe has revealed in a new interview that the upcoming <u>Highlander remake<\/u>, where <u>he will portray the character played by Sean Connery in the 1986 original<\/u>, will allow him to finally do what director Ridley Scott forbade him from doing in Gladiator.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">In a recent interview with <u>60 Minutes Australia<\/u>, Crowe laughingly recalled the ridiculously complicated background of Connery&#8217;s version of the character: <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">\u201cThe character\u2019s name is Ramirez and Sean played the character brilliantly, obviously, as a Scotsman. But they explain the reason that Ramirez, the Spaniard, had a Scottish accent in the movie by saying that earlier he came from Egypt!\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Connery\u2019s Scottish accent infamously remained intact whether he was playing a Russian sub commander in The Hunt for Red October, an Irish beat cop in The Untouchables, or a Moroccan insurrectionist in The Wind and the Lion.<\/p>\n<p><output class=\"box-wrapper jsx-2673806401\" data-cy=\"article-slideshow\"><button type=\"button\" style=\"display:none\" class=\"jsx-2228525885\"\/><\/p>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-view-trigger\">\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-preview\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 slideshow-preview\">\n<h3 class=\"title5 jsx-62124236 jsx-1085005187\" data-cy=\"slideshow-preview-title\">Sean Connery&#8217;s Best Films<\/h3>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-images-container\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 images-container\"><button type=\"button\" data-cy=\"hero-image\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 hero-image\"><img alt=\"&lt;B&gt;The Rock&lt;\/B&gt; (1996): When a renegade Marine general (Ed Harris) takes over tourist spot Alcatraz Island and threatens to launch nerve gas rockets at San Francisco unless his demands are met, FBI chemical weapons expert Stanley Goodspeed (Nicolas Cage) calls upon former Alcatraz inmate and spy John Patrick Mason (Sean Connery) to help him save the day. One of director Michael Bay's first and best movies, The Rock is a rousing albeit bombastic and frenetic popcorn flick.\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2021719738 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"\/><span class=\"button-text jsx-729543028 button button--primary jsx-3381835873 jsx-4266531355 row-pagination-button next contained centered round large\" data-cy=\"paginate next\" title=\"Open Slideshow\"><span class=\"ign-icon right-chevron jsx-2750866048 jsx-2919720488\" role=\"presentation\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-cy=\"right-chevron\" style=\"mask:url(https:\/\/kraken.ignimgs.com\/_next\/static\/media\/RightChevron.272be43c.svg) no-repeat center center \/ contain;background:currentColor\"\/><\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/output><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">That\u2019s when Crowe recalled how, early in rehearsals for Gladiator, he explained to Ridley Scott that, since his character Maximus was actually a Spaniard not a Roman, that he should speak with a Spanish accent or, as he put it, like \u201cAntonio Banderas with slightly better elocution.\u201d <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Crowe chuckled when recalling Scott\u2019s blunt response to his proposed character choice: \u201cThere\u2019s no fuckin\u2019 way that you\u2019re doing that.\u201d Crowe said they finally settled on Maximus speaking with an accent the actor dubs \u201cRoyal Shakespeare Company two pints after lunch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Crowe, who won the Oscar as Best Actor for Gladiator, revealed that he told this anecdote to Highlander reboot director Chad Stahelski who assured him, \u201c\u2018If you bring me Spanish, I will take Spanish.\u2019 So I\u2019m gonna do Ramirez as a Spaniard. We shall see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><output class=\"box-wrapper jsx-2673806401\" data-cy=\"article-video\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\"><u>Production on Highlander has been delayed<\/u> until 2026 while lead actor <u>Henry Cavill recovers from an injury<\/u> he sustained during training for the film.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">In addition to reuniting Man of Steel\u2019s Crowe and Cavill, the Highlander cast also includes Karen Gillan, Dave Bautista, Marisa Abela, Djimon Hounsou, Max Zhang, and <u>Scottish WWE Superstar Drew McIntyre<\/u>.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Meanwhile, IGN\u2019s Jesse Schedeen explains how the new <u>Highlander\u2019s casting of Jeremy Irons proves the reboot is already avoiding the franchise\u2019s biggest mistake<\/u>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/highlander-will-allow-russell-crowe-to-do-what-ridley-scott-said-no-fuckin-way-to-on-gladiator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russell Crowe has revealed in a new interview that the upcoming Highlander remake, where he will portray the character played by Sean Connery in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[8097,8099,6001,8096,8098,731,3879],"class_list":["post-8837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-crowe","tag-fuckin","tag-gladiator","tag-highlander","tag-ridley","tag-russell","tag-scott","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}