On the occasion of the broadcast of "Gladiator" tonight on TMC, back on an anecdote linked to this cult peplum: Oliver Reed, the interpreter of Proximo, died while filming.
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Oliver reed
Oliver Reed, who plays Proximo, the slave trader who allows Maximus to go to Rome and indulge his revenge, died three weeks before the end of the filming of a heart attack, in a bar in Malta. He was 61 years old.
A clause in the insurance contract allowed Ridley Scott to direct the missing scenes of Reed with another actor. But as the rest of the cast was exhausted due to permanent readjustments to the timetable, the director used visual effects to replace it by digitally grafting his face onto the body of a lining. According to the IMDB website, the cost of these alterations is estimated at three million dollars.
How to do when an actor dies during the shooting?
A real mouthpiece of British cinema, Oliver Reed had his heyday in the 1960s and 1970s with significant roles in Les Damnés by Joseph Losey, or Love, The Devils and Tommy by Ken Russell. But he was also known for his alcoholism. On the day of his death, he allegedly ingested a quantity of alcohol in the amount of 500 euros and beat several members of the Royal Navy with a tug of war before succumbing.
His partner Russell Crowe said on this subject: "He drank until dead followed. He sat on a bar stool until he fell from it and continued to drink until he passed out. What do the tabloids say about what he drank on the day of his death? About thirty beers, eight or ten black rums and half a bottle of whiskey. In the end, he had created such a strange energy around of him that nobody was drinking with him. "*
* Source: IMDB
