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    Connie Nielsen: Denzel Washington’s Transient ‘Gladiator II’ Homosexual Kiss Wasn’t Lower Resulting from ‘Homophobia’

    David GroveBy David GroveNovember 19, 20243 Mins Read
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    Connie Nielsen: Denzel Washington’s Transient ‘Gladiator II’ Homosexual Kiss Wasn’t Lower Resulting from ‘Homophobia’
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    The solid of “Gladiator II” is making an attempt to chop the twine on the alleged homosexual kiss discord.

    After Denzel Washington, whose character Macrinus references having relationships with different males within the movie, advised Gayety {that a} identical intercourse kiss was edited out, his co-star Connie Nielsen assured audiences that it was not on account of “homophobia” however relatively simply the modifying course of.

    “My grieving scene didn’t make it into the movie both,” Nielsen advised Selection whereas on the Governors Awards. “It’s not homophobia. It’s simply there was no room for it.”

    Producer Michael Pruss added, “There was a lot stuff that was shot that didn’t make it into the movie. It was actually a non-event.”

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    GLADIATOR, Connie Nielsen, Russell Crowe, 2000. ©DreamWorks/courtesy Everett

    Through the “Gladiator II” Los Angeles premiere, Washington additionally agreed that the so-called controversy is irrelevant. “It actually is far ado about nothing,” Washington stated. “They’re making extra of it than it was. I kissed him on his fingers, I gave him a peck and I killed him.”

    Director Ridley Scott even stated that it was “bullshit” {that a} extended kiss was even filmed. “They by no means did [that]. They acted the second — it didn’t occur,” Scott stated.

    Washington beforehand had defined that the manufacturing was too “rooster” to incorporate the overtly queer scene. “I really kissed a person within the movie however they took it out, they minimize it, I believe they bought rooster,” Washington stated. “I kissed a man full on the lips and I suppose they weren’t prepared for that but. I killed him about 5 minutes later.”

    He added, “It’s ‘Gladiator.’ It’s the kiss of dying.”

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    “Gladiator II” is a reunion between Washington and Scott; the duo collaborated collectively on 2007 movie “American Gangster.” To get Washington to conform to play Macrinus in “Gladiator II,” Scott confirmed the Oscar winner a portray by nineteenth century artist Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema as a degree of reference for the character.

    “[Alma-Tadema’s] work in Roman and Greek circumstance, they’re spectacular,” Scott advised Deadline. “There was a portray which I believe defines the Macrinus: a man standing there, with big forearms. He’s African, superlatively highly effective, and he’s sporting stunning silk — orange and sky-blue silk — and he’s bought a beard that hits a degree. He’s bought a hat on the again of his head; it seems a bit like a Dizzy Gillespie hat however woven with beads and no matter else they used again then. Denzel stated, ‘What does he do?’ I stated, ‘Nicely, he’s a billionaire.’ He stated, ‘Oh, OK, ship me the script.’”

    “Gladiator II” hits theaters on Friday, November 22.



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