"I look the pilots in the eye now, I tell you that... It's a lonely job; those guys fly all over the world and end up staying in hotels in foreign places. Long hours." Playing a drunk pilot in new film Flight has made Denzel Washington a more observant passenger.
"Back in the '80s me and this guy..., we decided we were gonna drink in a scene because we were supposed to be drinking in an actual movie and we got drunk and the director sent us home... He said, 'You're terrible,' so I learned my lesson... You can go online and YouTube 'drunks'... The person who is being videotaped usually doesn't know it." Denzel Washington on how he prepared to play a functioning alcoholic in new film Flight.
Denzel Washington braved the storm in New York City on Monday night (29Oct12) to make it to the taping of late night host David Letterman's The Late Show. The movie star arrived onstage wearing a yellow raincoat. The show was taped without its traditional studio audience.
Oscar-winning moviemaker Robert Zemeckis will be honoured with the Founder's Award at the 48th Chicago International Film Festival on Thursday (25Oct12) for his new movie Flight, which stars Denzel Washington as a functioning alcoholic pilot. The movie closes the Chicago festival on Thursday.
Denzel Washington felt compelled to apologise to Ryan Reynolds and his castmates after shooting 2012 action film Safe House - because he acted like "a jerk" on set.