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Denzel Washington's gay kiss that was cut from Gladiator II may never have been intended for final film
Denzel Washington revealed one of the Gladiator II scenes that wound up on the cutting room floor ahead of the release of Ridley Scott's $310M-budget historical epic.
Macrinus marked Washington's first bisexual part, after he famously played a lawyer who overcame his homophobia after winning a $5M wrongful termination lawsuit for an AIDS-infected client (Tom Hanks) in Jonathan Demme's 1993 film Philadelphia. And the two-time Oscar winner wasn't alone, as director Ridley Scott, 86, also cut a same-sex kiss between gladiator Lucius Verus (Paul Mescal) and Roman general Marcus Acacius (Pedro Pascal). Macrinus marked the two-time Oscar winner's first bisexual part, and he famously played a lawyer who overcame his homophobia after winning a $5M wrongful termination lawsuit for an AIDS-infected client (Tom Hanks) in Jonathan Demme's 1993 film Philadelphia
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