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6. Big Show Could've Been In Gladiator?
Could Paul Wight have made an appearance in Ridley Scott's Oscar-wining Gladiator? Seemingly so.
During an interview with Chris Van Vliet earlier this year, the former Big Show discussed how he'd received a loose offer to star in a movie with Russell Crowe.
As Wight explained, this opportunity came up shortly after he'd signed with WWE in 1999. Nic Cage's son was a big fan of Big Show, and so Cage reached out to start a conversation with Show. During said chat, Nic made mention of a Russell Crowe movie for which the World's Largest Athlete would be perfect.
To take up this mystery role in this mystery Crowe picture, Show need to spend spend six weeks filming in Spain. When he asked Vince McMahon for his approval on this, the response was quite simple; McMahon was paying Big Show to be a wrestler, not an actor.
While Wight doesn't specify the movie offer to him was for Gladiator, he does say how he was sat in a cinema watching Gladiator and thinking that could've been him.
For those wondering, Gladiator was shot largely in Malta, Morocco and England during a timeframe that would've matched up with Paul Wight's early tenure in McMahon's company.