Paul Mescal chickened out of meeting Denzel Washington on “Gladiator II ”set, ran to dressing room: 'Not today'
Mescal said he tried to hype himself up to meet the two-time Oscar winner. "I was stood at the bottom of the steps, and I stood there for a couple of minutes, and I said, 'Not today,'" the Aftersun star remembered. "So I bailed out and I ran to my dressing room — like, 'Tomorrow I'm going to be a brave boy.'"