Denzel Washington's claim gay kiss was cut from Gladiator branded false by furious Ridley Scott

Gladiator II manager Ridley Scott is debunking prima Denzel Washington's claims that a cheery buss was chopped from the long-awaited sequel.

The 69-year-old histrion revealed successful an interrogation with Gayety that he, 'actually kissed a antheral successful the movie but they took it out, I deliberation they got chicken.'

He added, 'I kissed a feline afloat connected the lips and they... I conjecture they weren't acceptable for that yet. I killed him astir 5 minutes later.'

However, Scott was interviewed by Variety astatine the Los Angeles premiere connected Monday, and erstwhile asked astir the 'kiss with the boy,' helium seemed rather confused. 

'He kills the Senator, is that what you mean?' The interviewer said, 'Denzel said helium kissed a antheral connected the lips but it didn't marque the last cut,' arsenic Scott insisted, 'No, that's bulls**t.'

Scott added, 'It was a Senator,' and different antheral disconnected camera said, 'We adjacent went backmost and looked astatine the film, determination was ne'er (a cheery kiss).'

Scott explained, 'They ne'er did. They acted the infinitesimal and it didn't happen. It didn't hap due to the fact that they acted the infinitesimal arsenic if helium (did).' 

When the aforesaid interviewer caught up with Denzel connected the reddish carpet connected Monday, revealing that Ridley Scott claimed to person ne'er seen the cheery kiss, the histrion seemed to alteration his communicative a bit.

'It's overmuch ado astir nothing, it truly is overmuch ado astir nothing, you know, they're making much of it than it was,' Denzel said.

'I kissed him connected his hands, I gave him a peck and I killed him,' Denzel said with a laugh.

When the interviewer - a cheery antheral - said 'us cheery boys wanna spot Denzel kissing different man,' the histrion said, 'Well, I don't person the portion yet, are you gonna constitute it?'  

After Denzel's archetypal interrogation made headlines, a root told TMZ that Denzel's buss was improvised and wasn't adjacent successful the script.

Gladiator II prima Paul Mescal besides opened up astir an thought for a country helium had with Pedro Pascal wherever helium wanted to buss his co-star connected the forehead.

'There was a infinitesimal erstwhile we were rehearsing my combat country with Pedro, and I had an thought towards the extremity of the country to buss Pedro connected the forehead,' the 28-year-old Englishman told EW last month.

'I did it successful 1 of the takes, and past we're getting the vigor messages backmost to Ridley and I was like, "Ridley, buss connected the forehead, did you similar it? Yay oregon nay?"' Mescal said. 

'There was vigor soundlessness for a second. His vigor crackles backmost and [sarcastically] goes "I'm acrophobic I did,"' Mescal said, adding, 'I deliberation Ridley's 1 of the funniest men I've ever travel across.'

Gladiator II hits American theaters this Friday, though it has already performed good overseas with an $87 cardinal overseas debut.