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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.

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Speaker 2: It's been twenty three years since filmmaker Ridley Scott and

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Speaker 2: Joaquin Phoenix made the iconic action epic Gladiator, with Joaquin

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Speaker 2: playing the Emperor Commitus, and they've teamed back up with

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Speaker 2: Joaquin once again playing an emperor one even more notorious

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Speaker 2: in the upcoming saga Napoleon. There are many similarities between

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Speaker 2: the two projects, which is one of the reasons Joaquin

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Speaker 2: found the opportunity to work on it. Simply irresistible, he

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Speaker 2: tells Empire. The truth is, there was just a very

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Speaker 2: nostalgic idea of working with Ridley again. I had such

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Speaker 2: an incredible experience working with Ridley on Gladiator. I was

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Speaker 2: so young, it was my first big production. I really

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Speaker 2: yearned for that experience again or something similar. He'd approached

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Speaker 2: me about other things in the past, but nothing felt

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Speaker 2: like it would be as demanding for both of us.

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Speaker 2: So I really liked the idea of jumping into something

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Speaker 2: with Ridley that was going to be exactly that. Napoleon

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Speaker 2: hits theaters this November.

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Speaker 1: That's Direct from Hollywood.