20 Things You Somehow Missed In Gladiator

14. Maximus Clearly Hasn't Seen His Wife In Far Too Long

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In the same scene where he describes his home, Maximus claims that the soil in his fields is 'black, like my wife's hair." Later, when we see his wife for the first time, Giannina Facio, the actress playing her, has long, curly brown hair.

Either Maximus has forgotten what his wife looks like after being gone for 2 years and 264 days, or she has had a spa day or two while he has been gone and somehow managed to lighten her hair colour.

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