Is Denzel Washington Hinting About Film Retirement?
The Oscar-winning actor and director, 69, in an interview with Empire magazine about acting in Ridley Scott’s upcoming film Gladiator II.
“I have very few films left that I’m interested in, and I have to be inspired by a director, and Ridley has inspired me tremendously,” Washington told the publication.
Scott, 86, “had a great first go-round” with Washington as a collaborator on the 2007 film. American gangsterhe continued. The British writer and director is “excited about life and his next film. He is an inspiration,” added Washington. “We should all feel that way in ’86.”
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He joins Paulo Mescal, Pedro Pascal and Connie Nielsen Gladiator IIWashington plays Macrinus, a wealthy arms dealer who “wants to be emperor and is willing to do anything to get it,” he told Empire. The new film is the long-awaited follow-up to Scott’s 2000 Best Picture Oscar winner. Gladiatorwhich starred Russell Crowe.
As for the amount of “movies” left for Washington to be inspired by, the actor hasn’t spoken publicly about retirement. Together with Gladiator IIhis upcoming films include a crime thriller High and Low and an untitled project to reunite with Training day and Equalizer directed by Antoine Fuqua. In the spring of 2025, he will return to Broadway for the sixth time, joining Jake Gyllenhaal in a production of the work of William Shakespeare Othello.
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From 2021 The Tragedy of MacbethWashington has 10 Oscar nominations, with two wins, for 1989. Glory and in 2001 Training day. He is the director of four feature films, and has produced dozens, including August Wilson’s screen adaptations Fences, Oh Rainey’s Black Bottom and upcoming ones Piano lessonstarring his son John David Washington and directed by his other son, Malcolm Washington.
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Denzel Washington in ‘Gladiator II’.
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Scott, I’m speaking Vanity Fair in July, described Washington’s Gladiator II character as “pretty freaking cruel” to those fighting for their lives in Rome’s Colosseum.
To follow up, he told PEOPLE on the red carpet Alien: Romulus August 12 is “as good as the first.” The director added: “I didn’t say it better. It’s just as well.”
Gladiator IIfrom Paramount Pictures, will be in theaters on November 22.
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