Denzel Washington kissed a guy, and he’d have liked it to stay in “Gladiator II.”

Denzel Washington revealed that a same-sex kiss he filmed for Gladiator II was cut from the final movie.

Denzel Washington rules on screen, but there is one thing audiences won’t get to see him do in his latest film.

Macrinus shared a same-sex smooch on screen in Ridley Scott's Gladiator 2, but Denzel Washington says it got cut

Denzel Washington kissed a man on the lips while filming "Gladiator 2" but it wasn't including in the theatrical cut.

Denzel Washington kissed a man on the lips in 'Gladiator II', but it was cut from the movie. The 69-year-old actor plays Rome

Denzel Washington has come clean about a scenethat didn't make the final cut in Gladiator II. Ahead of the movie's release in the U.S. on Friday, November 22, Washington — who stars as Roman powerbroker Macrinus — candidly confessed during a recent interview that there was scrapped footage of his character kissing a man.

Denzel Washington shared that a same-sex kiss he performed for 'Gladiator II' was removed from the final cut of the film. Washington, who plays the ambitious and ruthless businessman Macrinus in the Ridley Scott sequel,

Paul Mescal previously revealed to Entertainment Weekly that a forehead kiss he gave Pedro Pascal was also scrapped from the film.

Actor Denzel Washington told Gayety that he had a kiss in the movie, but it was ultimately cut from the final print. “I actually kissed the man in the film, but they took it, they cut it, I think they got chicken,