Denzel Washington has revealed that Gladiator 2 originally featured a scene in which his character Macrinus kissed a man, but it was cut from the movie's final edit."I kissed the man in the film, but they took it [out].

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

Rome teeters on the brink in Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator II.” Its fall is said to be imminent. The dream it once symbolized is dead. The once high-minded ideals of the Roman Empire have deteriorated across a venal land now ruled by a pale-faced emperor.