According To Connie Nielsen, Denzel Washington’s Energy Made Mysterious Things Happen On Set Of “GLADIATOR II”
BFOZ: So many things are happening at once and we’re curious to know, were there any particular scenes that were challenging or diffcult to get into the mindset of Lucilla?
Connie: The way that [Lucilla]’s written is coherent and then the work that we each do, all of us actors, is to bring background, context and to lobby for our ideas which we all did with Ridley — lobbying, and trying to gain justice for your character. So, what I found was even in the most difficult scene all I had to do was to say to Ridley, ‘Ridley, I wouldn’t just sit here if this were real, I basically would’ve thrown those two guys over the railing and murdered them, if that was the situation for me.’ And he was like [to the crew], ‘Okay let’s chain her down’. Ha ha. It was that kind of response immediately to what we were bringing up.
