Gladiator II star Paul Mescal confesses the hardest feat in filming Ridley Scotts historical epic wasnt necessarily the highly-anticipated fight scenes. In Scotts follow-up to the Oscar-winning Gladiator, Mescal plays a grown-up Lucius, son of Lucilla (Connie Neilson) and the fearsome gladiator Maximus (Russell Crowe). Set to release on November 22, Gladiator II will follow Lucius as hes forced to follow the bloodied legacy of his late father.