Denzel Washington isn't in it for the accolades.
The 2-time Oscar winner mentioned in an interview on Jake Hamilton's “Jake's Takes” collection that in his profession, he's been by means of wins and losses on the Academy Awards, and finally, the outcomes don't imply a lot.
“I don't do it for Oscars,” Washington, 70, mentioned alongside his Highest 2 Lowest costar Jeffrey Wright on the Monday, August 11, episode. “I actually don't care about that sort of stuff.”
“I've been at this a very long time, and there's occasions once I've received, shouldn't have received, didn't win, ought to have received,” he continued. “Man provides the award, God provides the award. I'm not that interested by Oscars. Folks say, ‘Nicely, the place do you retain it?' I say, ‘Subsequent to the opposite one.'”
“I'm not bragging,” he concluded. “I'm simply telling you the way I really feel about it. On my final day, it ain't going to do me a bit of fine.”
Washington has 10 Oscar nominations in his profession, courting again to his 1988 Finest Supporting Actor nomination for Cry Freedom. His two wins got here in 1990 for Glory (Finest Supporting Actor) and 2002 for Coaching Day (Finest Actor).
His most up-to-date nomination, for Finest Actor, got here in 2022 for his position in The Tragedy of Macbeth.
Denzel Washington in 2002. photograph by Frank Micelotta/ImageDirect
Washington's perspective towards the Oscars shouldn't come as a shock. When The New York Times requested him about not incomes a nomination for Gladiator II in February, he gave a sarcastic response.
“Are you kidding me? Awww. Oh, I'm so upset,” he mentioned. “I'm pleased for all that did, and I'm pleased with what I'm doing.”
Washington hasn't simply minimized his awards, he's decried the very concept of being a Hollywood actor.
“What's the definition of a Hollywood actor?” he mentioned throughout a March look on CBS Sunday Morning. “Myself, I'm from Mount Vernon, so I'm a ‘Mount Vernon actor.' I don't know what ‘Hollywood' means.”
He added that he doesn't even take into account himself a film actor after getting his begin in theater.
“I'm a stage actor who does movie; it's not the opposite means round,” Washington mentioned. “I did stage first. I discovered how you can act on stage, not on movie. Films are a filmmaker's medium. You shoot it, and then you definately're gone, and so they minimize collectively and add music and do all of that. Theater is an actor's medium. The curtain goes up, no one might help you.”
Highest 2 Lowest hits theaters Friday, August 15, and begins streaming on Apple TV+ September 5.
