For over 40 years, Denzel Washington has dazzled the public with a superb performance after another. (He had been the goods from the start, even when he paid his subscription in the remarkably erroneous “carbon copy”.) He is clearly one of our greatest living players, and he seems to have the time of his life to mix his commercial efforts with serious artistic activities. And he obtained cool points by insisting to stay on the “Late Show with David Letterman” sofa so that he can be roasted by Don Rickles.
There have been disappointments along the way, some are deep (like Columbia Pictures which spin the launch of the Easy Rawlins franchise in Washington). For me, there are few Hollywood sins, less forgiven than the Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences giving Al Pacino the best actor Oscar for Martin Brest’s “Women’s Immal” the same year that Washington gave one of the greatest cinematographic performances of Spike Lee “Malcolm X” by Spike Lee “. Inexplicably given Carney de Carney’s best actor for Paul Mazursky’s “Harry and Tonto” on Pacino’s majestic work in “The Godfather Part II” (also one of the greatest cinematographic performances of all time), but that makes me better injustice.
What does Washington think about this serious error in judgment 32 years later? Just Peachy, actually!
Denzel Washington is more anxious to please God than the voters of the academy
In an interview on Jake’s Taked at the barely promoted theatrical release of “the highest 2 lower” (the new adaptation of Spike Lee by “King’s Ransom” by Evan Hunter, which was previously the base for Akira Kurosawa the thriller “High and Low”), Washington asked that it is not “Training day” by Antoine Fuqua.
Washington considers its success as a reward from a spiritual perspective. “I don’t care about this kind of thing,” he said. “I have been there for a long time, and there is time when I won and should not have won and then I did not win and should have won. The man awards the prize. God gives the reward.” It is an interesting answer. Many people (myself included) thought that the Oscar of Washington’s “training day” should have gone to Tom Wilkinson for his devastating performance in “in the room” of Todd Field. Maybe Washington agrees!
Washington added: “I’m not so interested in the Oscars. People ask me:” Where do I keep it? “Well, next to the other. [Oscars] I’m not going to do a little good. “When the interviewer expressed his doubt that God cares about Oscars, Washington laughed and replied:”[God] Might say, “That’s why I gave you an additional week.” [As] So much as he says, “Now go here”, I’m fine. “”
I hope there is a paradise for all the obvious reasons, but I imagine that it is a place where everything is possible, which means that I could finally interview Washington. And watch Rickles give him the business.
“The highest 2 lower” opens in the rooms on August 15, 2025, before broadcasting on Apple TV + a few weeks later on September 5.
