Denzel Washington performs Macrinus in Gladiator II. Cuba Scott/Paramount Photos
Gladiator II director Ridley Scott is shutting down claims {that a} same-sex kiss was minimize from the brand new film.
Denzel Washington, who performs power-hungry former slave Macrinus within the movie, not too long ago stated he kissed a person on the lips, however the second didn’t make the ultimate minimize.
“No, that’s b——t. It was a senator. They by no means did. They acted the second and [it] didn’t occur,” Scott, 86, instructed Selection on the crimson carpet on the Gladiator II Los Angeles premiere on Monday, November 18.
In an interview with Gayety revealed on October 31, Washington, 69, stated, “I truly kissed a person within the movie however they took it out, they minimize it. I feel they obtained rooster.”
The Oscar winner continued, “I kissed a man full on the lips and I suppose they weren’t prepared for that but. I killed him about 5 minutes later. It’s Gladiator. It’s the kiss of demise.”
Nevertheless, chatting with Selection on Monday evening, Washington stated the kiss was merely a “peck” on the lips.
“It actually is way ado about nothing,” the actor stated. “They’re making extra of it than it was. I kissed him on his fingers, I gave him a peck and I killed him.”
Michael Pruss, Fred Hechinger, Connie Nielsen, Paul Mescal, Ridley Scott and Denzel Washington attend the ‘Gladiator II’ Los Angeles premiere. Phillip Faraone/Getty Photographs
Talking to Selection on the Governors Ball in Los Angeles on Sunday, November 17, producer Michael Pruss stated of the scene: “There was a lot stuff that was shot that didn’t make it into the movie. It was actually a non-event.”
In the meantime, actress Connie Nielsen, who reprises her Gladiator function as Lucilla, instructed the outlet that a few of her scenes have been additionally minimize from the sequel.
Paul Mescal triggered fairly a stir by stepping out in Milan on Monday, June 17, in very quick shorts displaying, as soon as once more, that he’s a person who’s assured in his pores and skin and, extra particularly, his legs. The Regular Folks actor, 28, wore the distinctive thigh-grazers on the Gucci males’s spring/summer season 2025 vogue present […]
“My grieving scene didn’t make it into the movie both. It’s not homophobia. It’s simply there was no room for it,” she stated.
Gladiator II stars Paul Mescal as Lucius, the previous inheritor of Rome who’s pressured to grow to be a gladiator. Pedro Pascal performs a common named Marcus Acacius. Whereas their characters are rivals on display screen, the actors teased that in addition they shared a young second within the film that was minimize.
Paul Mescal Aidan Monaghan/Paramount Photos
“There was a second after we have been rehearsing my struggle scene with Pedro, and I had an concept in direction of the top of the scene to kiss Pedro on the brow,” Mescal, 28, instructed Leisure Weekly in October. “I did it in one of many takes, after which we’re getting the radio messages again to Ridley [in video village], and I used to be like, ‘Ridley: Kiss on the brow, did you prefer it? Yay or nay?’ There was radio silence for a second. His radio crackles again, and [Ridley] goes, ‘I’m afraid I did.’”
Gladiator II is in theaters on Friday, November 22.
