Denzel Washingtonis one of our finest living actors, but his filmography is far from spotless.
Just ask Denzel Washington.
“AfterMalcolm XI made some real clunkers,” hetold U.K. outletThe Timesin a new interview.
Denzel Washington in ‘Virtuosity’.Everett Collection
“Look them up I won’t say their names.
They are all in the 1990s.”
He added, “But I was earning.
Denzel Washington.Momodu Mansaray/WireImage
I had responsibilities.”
The two-time Oscar winner explained how he selected his projects then.
For Washington, that 30-to-60 period stretched from 1984 to 2014.
“I see very few films,” he said.
“So I can’t tell you I grew up loving movies and would escape in them.”
“You don’t learn to act on TV.
You don’t learn to act in movies.
You learn to act on stage.
TV and films are a director’s medium where they are in control.”
The actor also revealed that he doesn’t make a habit of revisiting his old films.
“But I haven’t watched any film from my past from start to finish, not evenMalcolm X.
All you see is what you did wrong.
Also, why would you do it anyway?”
He knows every line by heart.
He can recite the entire story."
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