‘Gladiator II', therefore, arrived with a difficult ... Fate comes calling when a Roman legion, led by General Acacius (Pedro Pascal), conquers Numidia, killing Lucius' wife in the process.

In “Gladiator II,” Paul Mescal is the outsider railing ... leave his idyllic life in Numidia when a Roman army (led by Pedro Pascal) sweeps in and pulls Mescal’s Lucius into its breads ...