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Denzel Washington's gay kiss was cut from Gladiator II: 'I guess they weren't ready for that'


The 69-year-old Oscar winner portrays slave-turned-powerbroker Macrinus, who maintains a stable of gladiators and desires to become Roman emperor

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. 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 The Equalizer 3 producer-star and the 74-year-old Reasonable Doubt actress originally met on the 1977 set of NBC movie Wilma, and they renewed their vows in a 1995 ceremony officiated by anti-apartheid activist Desmond Tutu in South Africa.

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