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It was the smooch too powerful to be shown. In a time of war, don’t we need a little love? Denzel Washington told Gayety that his queer kiss was cut from Gladiator II. “I actually kissed a man in the film but they took it out, they cut it, I think they got chicken,” he said. “I kissed a guy full on the lips and I guess they weren’t ready for that yet.”
This isn’t the only gentleman-on-gentleman peck cut from the film. Earlier this year, Paul Mescal and Ridley Scott discussed the excision of a scene where Mescal killed Pedro Pascal on the forehead. “I didn’t tell Ridley I was gonna do it. And then I was nervous after we did it because I thought he was going to fucking hate it,” Mescal told
