“I actually kissed a man in the film but they took it out. They cut it,” Washington said. “I think they got chicken.” He further explained, “I kissed a guy full on the lips and they, I guess they weren’t ready for that yet,” jokingly adding that his character delivers a “kiss of death” as he “killed him about five minutes later.”
Denzel is a pretty devout Christian I’m sure some producer tried to get him to do it as a humiliation ritual.
Doesn't sound like that at all.
Meh, Italians do it all the time.
That's why they made the mafia.