Meaning: when you hire him, you are not hiring a movie star, or a celebrity. You might say that Denzel Washington is very much a horse’s mouth kind of a guy. It’s not a bad thing, but people think it’s a fact, you know what I mean? When it’s not a fact. Things like this James Bond thing can just easily happen. Now you can hear the way I’m talking to you, as opposed to online, where there’s no emotion connected to it, or it could be interpreted all kinds of ways. It’s why I prefer, you know, talking to you. But it’s interesting what happens to information. “I just answered the question and jokingly said, ‘Hey, let’s get a campaign!’ I haven’t thought about James Bond, I was just asked about it. “So no, I’m not campaigning to play James Bond,” he clarifies with a laugh. Before long, you couldn’t move for news stories that read, ‘Denzel Desperate To Play Bond!’ or ‘Look Out, Craig!’ or somesuch. Then someone suggested the creation of #DenzelIsJamesBond, then Twitter went into one of its famous meltdowns, then the rest of the internet jumped into action. You don’t get the irony of it.” Helpfully, Reddit printed Denzel saying, “We start the Denzel is Bond campaign today!” in nice bold type. So the question was, ‘Would you play James Bond?’ And I said, ‘Yeah, sure, why not?’ and jokingly, ‘Yeah, get out there and start a campaign! Denzel for James Bond!’ But in the translation from the way I said it, to the way she put it down, to the way it went out to the world, you didn’t get my sarcasm. “And so then she was sending out my response to whoever’s online. “I was on the phone, and the person on the phone was asking me the questions that were being sent in to her,” he says. Basically, what happened was… well, I’ll let him explain it, shall I? And it came courtesy of that most notorious of information age viral headline-creating institutions: Reddit’s Ask Me Anything series. We have arrived at this juncture because, as fate would have it, just 24 hours before we speak, Denzel Washington had added to his formidable list of life achievements what might just be his first information age viral headline-grabbing moment. Obviously, our conversation did not start like this. You’re interacting with your device, but you may not be talking with whoever’s across from you. It’s crazy! It’s interesting that it’s called ‘interactive’. It’s like it’s an appendage: I don’t even think she realised she was doing it. “She’s eating and checking it, she’s talking and checking it. “She could not stop touching her phone,” he remembers. A person – a woman – was sitting with a friend, but not saying anything to her friend, or even much looking at her friend. ![]() In fact, it was something that perplexes a lot of us – me, certainly – in this day and age. Two weeks ago, Denzel Washington was out at a restaurant with a friend when something at one of the neighbouring tables caught his attention. Hamish MacBain meets an “analogue” acting icon One of Hollywood’s most prestigious leading men offing bad guys in a revived Eighties TV classic? If anyone can do it, Denzel Washington can.
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