I recently spoke with Ridley Scott and Paul Mescal in celebration of Gladiator II's release and asked if there were any actors in particular who caught them off guard and shined amongst the star-studded cast.

Are you not entertained? For the less zoologically fixated, there are other bids for applause: catapults raining fire from Jupiter’s stratosphere; massive, groaning ships drifting across open sea and a flooded arena;