Washington also walked back his original comments, noting that it was a "peck" and that the scene "really is much ado about nothing" Ridley Scott is setting the record straight on Denzel Washington’s same-sex kiss from Gladiator II.

What kiss scene? Gladiator II director Ridley Scott claimed Denzel Washington was lying when the actor recently accused producers of cutting a scene of his character, Macrinus, kissing a man on the lips during the highly anticipated film — which hits theaters on Friday,

Sir Ridley Scott has firmly refuted Denzel Washington ’s claim he kissed a man in Gladiator II – only to see it cut from the final film. And in typical straightforward Sir Ridley fashion, he called the actor’s story ‘bulls**t’.