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

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

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.