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

But what raises the follow-up above typical blockbuster fare is a scene-stealing performance from Denzel Washington. Not that you really notice that theft at first. There’s a lot going on in the background.

Denzel Washington has revealed that his same-sex kiss was cut from Gladiator II. Speaking in a new interview, Washington, who plays the ruthless businessman Macrinus in the Ridley Scott film, was asked, “How gay is the Roman empire ?”