Denzel says his Gladiator II gay kiss was cut: "I think they got chicken"
"I kissed a guy full on the lips and I guess they weren’t ready for that yet," Washington said in a recent interview about Gladiator II
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From the first moment its trailers arrived on the internet, it was pretty clear that Denzel Washington wasn’t bothering with restraint when it came to his performance in Ridley Scott’s blood-on-sand sequel Gladiator II. As power broker/revolution fomenter/serious ring wearer Macrinus, Washington was giving something very close to the Full Denzel right from the jump, firing menace and charisma at the camera as few modern actors can. Turns out, though, that not everything Washington put into his performance will end up on the screen when the movie opens in the U.S. next weekend, after showing up in the U.K. this week: “I actually kissed a man in the film,” Washington said in an interview with Gayety that popped up online a few weeks back, “But they took it out, they cut it, I think they got chicken.”