Gladiator II also features appearances from Stranger Things’ Joseph Quinn and The White Lotus star Fred Hechinger, while Connie Nielsen and Derek Jacobi reprise their roles from the first film. On Wednesday night, the entire cast came together with director Ridley Scott for the film’s London premiere, which was also attended by King Charles.

Denzel Washington has shared that a “full on” gay “kiss of death” he filmed for “Gladiator II” did not make the final cut. Washington, 69, plays Macrinus, a wealthy power player in Rome who owns a troop of gladiators,

Denzel Washington revealed in a video interview with Gayety that he kissed a man on the lips while filming “Gladiator II,” but the scene was cut out from the theatrical cut of the long-awaited sequel.

From the first moment its trailers arrived on the internet, it was pretty clear that Denzel Washington wasn’t bothering with restraint when it came to his performance in Ridley Scott’s blood-on-sand sequel Gladiator II.