Famous American actor, Denzel Washington has revealed he has Nigerian ancestry. The ‘Gladiator II’ actor disclosed that his heritage test shows that he is 90 per cent Irish and 10 per cent Nigerian. Washington spoke in a recent interview with British-Nigerian media personality,

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.

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.”