we thought about it for 20 24 years not every day it was always there in the back of my mind but in that time I did 17 other movies big ones so it really wasn’t an incredible challenge other than saying be nice to get to it and we finally got to it by sitting down at a table and saying whatever happened to Lucius and that was it this was something that I always wanted to do but I wanted it to be in the right hands and the right story rley put together a character and some situations and plot points that were so insane that I would have been crazy not to not to do it never been on sets like that you know they they built Rome it’s a total total gift you walk onto set and if you can’t act in that environment I don’t think this job is is for you and now I’m starting to see Rome yeah there’s the pazo there is the foot of Hercules and there’s the Coliseum but it has a different vibe now you can see that there’s been neglect of Rome there’s been riots in Rome there’s been like an abuse of this sacred beautiful city you look at all of the people in these wider shots and just the kind of uh destruction that Rome is falling into and so I think I think Rome’s in an even worse place you you thought it was bad over 20 years ago like things are things are really really rough now