Everyone keeps talking about Denzel on Gladiator but can we discuss Caracalla and Geta?

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This was Caracalla (bust and reconstruction)

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17206248465220697.webp

And this was Geta (bust and reconstruction)

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17206248467090561.webp

The Severans were from Carthage and likely had a North African look not different from modern day Tunisians, on the reconstruction Geta is too dark skinned but Caracalla is about right. Caracalla did wear a blonde wig while on his campaigns on Germania but it probably looked very uncanny on him.

Meanwhile on Ridley Scott slop

https://i.rdrama.net/images/17206248471065786.webp https://i.rdrama.net/images/17206248474048038.webp

The trailer is hilarious! Rap music, Kang merchant Denzel working to destroy the Roman Empire, two ginger gay twinks as villains. I was half-expecting the Rock showing up with Vin Diesel !nooticers

@Aevann can this get a pin please :capyexcited: Hollywood seems keen on erasing North Africans and replace them with either pasty Bongs or Kangz.

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Yeah I'm fine with most of the individual things in the Gladiator 2 trailer but song just feels slapped on and cheapens the vibe. Moving on from Hans Zimmer was going to be tough but moving to pop music wasn't the way to go. Denzel's character could be alright, but from the trailer it seems a little over the top and not as cunning as they could have made him.

Also I'm getting of tired of Pedro Pascal and I skipped a bunch of his recent stuff.


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