Beginning this February on Broadway with a revival of “Othello,” he’s booked, Washington revealed, for the next six years.

Ridley Scott, the director of "Gladiator II," said during an interview that Denzel Washington's character in the movie, Marcinus, was similar to President-elect Trump. "[Macrinus] was a prisoner of war — probably at a North African state — and actually was taken to Rome probably as a gladiator.

The director explains the backstory behind Washington's scene-stealing character, and how he's not unlike the President-elect.