Though Denzel Washington has played a myriad of roles and done a lot of things onscreen, he’s never played a gay character. But it appears he almost did in “Gladiator II.”

Gladiator 2 arrives in theaters this weekend, and if you were hoping to see Denzel Washington’s character kiss a man, well I’ve got bad news for you. While that scene was apparently filmed, it was cut because, according to Washington, the people in charged chickened out.