If you come in the room thinking that way, you’ll see what you want to see. But I know him and he’s one of the nicest people you’ll ever meet and he cares about others. Photograph: Rexĭo you think people find you intimidating?ĪF: I’ve heard people say he’s intimidating. Oscar winner … Denzel Washington in Training Day.
Because if you don’t smile, the way you look at people, they’ll think you’re mad at them.” That’s special, man.ĭW: My mother used to tell me: “You gotta smile more. You can feel it right now, can’t you? He’ll smile and laugh at you, but there’s still an energy. He doesn’t talk much in the movie, so how else do you show that?ĭW: I don’t do a stare! I try to work from the inside out, not the outside in.ĪF: There’s a “sustained intensity”, I call it, with Denzel, anyway. I was thinking about lunch!ĪF: I wanted you to see him getting mad. There’s a lot of close-ups of your eyes, looking mean.ĭW: It’s not even mean.
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One of the most abiding images in the movie is the character’s mean stare. I don’t know if it’s coincidence or what. Ironically, now the Russians are again back in the news in a negative way.
On the east coast it was more the Russian mob guys starting to get busted. Training Day was during the Rampart scandal in LA. They were coming into New York and taking over a lot of the Italian mafia’s turf.ĪF: Yeah. Those evil Swedes!ĪF: The thing about the Russians is, when we did Training Day, they were really making a lot of noise. Do you think that suggests America’s crime landscape hasn’t really changed?ĭW: Who else would you pick? Maybe we should have made it Swedes. There are some similarities between The Equalizer and Training Day. ‘We both enjoyed success coming off of Training Day’ … Denzel Washington with Antoine Fuqua. He said: “You have a contract and it will be honoured.” So it went away for a couple of years, then they called and said Ridley Scott was interested. My late agent Ed Limato, God rest his soul, was a master businessman. Talking of which, I hear you got paid twice for that movie, Denzel? ĭW: One and a half times. What happened?ĪF: You learn to … navigate. You nearly did American Gangster together. No I’d already shot it, I was going back to editing.
I won’t do that again.ĭW: Nah, I didn’t party, either. I didn’t even get to enjoy the Academy awards. You were stacked up a couple of pictures.Īntoine Fuqua: Yeah. We both enjoyed success coming off of Training Day.
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