You likely know the name Commodus as the bad guy from Gladiator, the Best Picture winner from 2000. Played as a pervy psychotic by Joaquin Phoenix, Emperor Commodus is portrayed as a man with ...
A Roman marble portrait head dating back over 1,800 years has sold for a whopping £71,000 at an auction in Oxford.
Of course, the last time Scott and Phoenix worked together it was on Gladiator, where Phoenix played the cruel and mercurial Emperor Commodus. I’ll have to rewatch that movie before I go see ...