Why Denzel Washington refused to film love scenes with Julia Roberts
The actors were originally supposed to kiss in the 1993 thriller, The Pelican Brief.
In 1993, two of the biggest Hollywood cinema stars joined a legal thriller based on a successful novel. The Pelican brief stars Julia Robert And Denzel Washington As a student in law and journalist who work together to obtain the bottom of the assassinations of two judges of the Supreme Court. At the start, the film was going to include A kiss between the two characters , but the scene was cut.
Almost 10 years later The Pelican brief Released, the two actors explained why they never even filmed a kiss between their characters. And while Roberts was certainly interested in Becoter Washington, he had a precise reason to refuse a love scene with her. Continue reading to learn more.
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Roberts wanted Washington to be his co-star in the drama.
According to Washington 2002 profile In Nowsweek , Roberts was thrown first and said to the director Alan J. Pakula that she wanted the actor for the role of Gray Grantham. At that time, Washington had already been nominated for an Oscars for the best support actor for Screaming , won the price to Glory , and would soon be nominated for the best actor to Malcolm X . As for Roberts, she was also already a huge star and had been nominated for the best support actress for Steel Magnolias And the best actress for A pretty woman .
"I had suggested it from the start, and he did incredible things with a character who didn't look much like paper. What would you like?" Roberts said Nowsweek from Washington.
She said she had caught Flak so as not to kiss her.
It was not Roberts' decision to cut the kiss provided for their characters, and she said Nowsweek that she had been criticized for the absence of a love scene between them.
"I have taken so much [explained] over the years so as not to kiss Denzel in this film," said Roberts. "Didn't I have a pulse? Of course, I wanted to kiss Denzel. It was his idea to take the whore Scenes. ""
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Washington thought of his fans of black women.
According to Nowsweek , Washington had "several reasons" for why he wanted the love scenes between the characters of sound and Roberts cut off from the film. One of these reasons was that he did not want to offend black women who constituted a large part of his fans base. According to some devices, the public during a testing of testing his 1989 film The powerful quinn Houé when Washington kissed the white actor Mimi Rogers . He would have had this kiss from the film's final cup removed.
"Black women are not often considered as objects of desire on the film," he said Nowsweek . "They have always been my main audience."
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John Grisham didn't want Washington to this role.
Speak Nowsweek Article, he was reported at the time that Washington was offered all his salary to abandon The Pelican brief , because John Grisham , the author of the 1992 novel did not imagine the character as black. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
"He saw himself in the role, and obviously I am nothing of him in appearance or other. As for Grisham, he commented:" Alan Pakula called me about the casting and said they were considering Denzel . I said it well. "
Nowsweek also pointed out that Will Smith Grisham said that he did not potentially approve of being poured in the 2003 cinematic adaptation of Run away Jury , who ended up playing John Cusack . The author did not comment on this complaint.
Other stars have complained that Washingon has nixed interracial love scenes.
Washington has filmed kisses on the screen with other white co-stars of his career. For example, him and Kelly Reilly Share a kiss in the film 2012 Flight . However, another whole woman complained that her romantic scenario with her character was removed from their film at the request of Washington.
In an interview of 2012 with the A.V. Club, Kelly Lynch , which is white, Talled to work with Washington On the 1995 film Virtuosity And said that she was disappointed that he intervened and that he had cut their love story.
"I said," Denzel, what is it? Why don't you think that the man you play couldn't be attracted to me? "I mean, it was not a cheesy love story. It was actually very well written and moving," said Lynch. "And he said," What do you know, Kelly? I hate saying it, but, you know, white men bring women to the cinema, and they don't want to watch a black man with their wife. "I said to myself," What? No . Really?' He said, "No, I'm sorry, but that's really what it is. This is what the public is. I say to myself: 'But what would you say The bodyguard ? It was a huge successful film. “Well, it's different. He is a white man. It's different.' I said: "So is that your main motivation factor on this subject?" He said yes. ' So the love story was no longer a love story. ""
Lynch added: "I'm sure he believed what he said, even if I think he is wrong."
In 2004, it was reported that Washington had a love scene Between him and another white actor, Radha Mitchell , Cup of The man on fire. According to Today , said a source: "Denzel Washington is concerned about the way the public reacts to him in an interracial romance", and explained that he did not want to upset his fans of black women. The Washington representative denied having demanded this Man on fire And also denied that he did it in 1993 The Pelican Brief , despite his comments to Nowsweek .
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