Denzel Washington - 'Fences'

Awards Chatter

Scott Feinberg

Tv & Film, Film Interviews

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2017

⏱️ 66 minutes

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The trailblazing two-time Oscar winner dishes on the advice Sidney Poitier gave him early in his career, his "formula" for whether or not to make a movie, the #OscarsSoWhite controversy ("You don't want to be nominated just because you're black") and why he agreed to direct and star in a big screen adaptation of the play for which he won a 2010 Tony. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.1	presented by Walt Disney Animation Studios
0:47.4	hit Original Film Zutopia,
0:49.4	which is Golden Globe nominated for Best Animated Feature.
0:52.6	My guest today is a living legend.
0:54.6	He is a trailblazer for actors of color,
0:57.0	as the first black A-list movie star since Sidney Poitier,
1:00.1	excepting Eddie Murphy.
1:01.8	He is one of the most bankable movie stars of his time,
1:04.4	with a filmography collectively responsible for more than 3.6 billion dollars in box office sales worldwide.
1:10.9	And he is both a Tony winner and a two-time Oscar winner. He is of course
1:15.7	Denzel Washington. The 61-year-old began his illustrious career on the stage and
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