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If there was a plot to Gladiator II, I have forgotten it. However, the memory of Paul Mescal’s testosterone-dripping, six-pack rippling, rhino-fighting turn as Lucius Verus Aurelius is slower to fade. Given that Lucius would scissor your head off with a pair of gladii as soon as give you the time of day, there was a delightful, almost subversive irony about the…