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A tymczasem zza kulis o pijaństwie Reeda (BTW z niego był naprawdę niezły chlor):

Russell didn't get along well at all with co-star Oliver Reed, who passed away from a heart attack halfway through filming. Opening up about his dislike of the late thespian, who played gladiator trainer Antonius Proximo, Russell told GQ magazine: "I never got on with Ollie. He has visited me in dreams and asked me to talk kindly of him. So I should... but we never had a pleasant conversation. I have seen him walk down the street in Malta drunk as a lord and just hit anybody he got near to - even a man walking with his children. I just found that to be - not impressive."

He continued: "He drank himself to death. He sat on a bar stool until he fell off it and carried on drinking... lying in his own piss and vomit he continued to drink till he passed out. What did the tabloids say he drank on the day he died? Something like 30 beers, eight or ten dark rums, and half a bottle of whiskey. In the end, he created such a weird energy around him that no one drinking with him cared."


https://www.mirror.co.uk/film/gladiators-behind-scene-secrets-russell-31782810