Denzel Washington may have said that his same-sex kiss in “Gladiator II” was cut from the movie because the powers that be got “chicken,” but, according to director Ridley Scott, the kiss may not have happened at all.
“No, that’s bullshit,” Scott told me Monday night at the “Gladiator II” premiere in Hollywood. He later added, “They never did. They acted the moment — it didn’t happen.”
Washington, meanwhile, claimed that it was simply a “peck” on the lips. “It really is much ado about nothing,” Washington said at the premiere. “They’re making more of it than it was. I kissed him on his hands, I
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