As Denzel Washington is gearing up for the premiere of the upcoming film, Roman J. Israel, Esq., he has been sitting down with the press to discuss the movie and what it ultimately means. During the New York premiere of the film, Washington was asked about his take on the justice system, and he explained that he doesn't blame the system for black incarceration.
“It starts at the home,” he told reporters. “It starts at home.”
When probed, Washington replied: “It starts with how you raise your children. If a young man doesn’t have a father figure, he’ll go find a father figure. So you know I can’t blame the system. It’s unfortunate that we make such easy work for them.”
Washington also talked about the film and his decision to be a part of it. When asked if it had to do with playing a lawyer again, he explained, “It really didn’t have much to do with that. It was just that Dan wrote a good script, a good story, the guy happened to be a lawyer. Law wasn’t the thing that attracted me to the story.”
Washington was able to get an inside look at how the director, Dan Gilroy, works by way of Jake Gyllenhaal (him and Washington spar at the same gym). “I got to learn a little bit about Dan in advance, and to see the great collaboration they had together,” Washington explained. “So it was easy, it was seamless, and it was invigorating.”
When asked his take on what his fans' reactions will be to the movie, he had this to say:
“I just do what I do. I can’t be concerned. I don’t know what they’re going to think, so that’s not something that comes into my head. . . . If it’s something I’m interested in, then I do it if I can, and we’ll find out what they think about it.”
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Source: nydailynews.com
