Toronto: Denzel Washington Recalls N-Word Insults at 'Equalizer' Press Conference

Hollywood Reporter ^ | 9/8/2014 | Borys Kit

[NotchJohnson]

Denzel Washington’s experience shooting his new movie The Equalizer in Boston revived memories of racial discrimination he encountered more than 30 years ago.

Washington was at the Toronto Film Festival press conference Sunday for Equalizer, which premieres at Roy Thomson Hall. For most of the time, he, director Antoine Fuqua and actors Chloe Grace Moretz and Marton Scokas talked about acting methods and the uneasiness of the first day of shooting. But a question about filming the movie in Boston and a comment Washington made about his wife’s upcoming one-woman show led to unexpected revelations Washington recalled how about three decades ago he was in Boston with wife Pauletta Pearson Washington, who was performing in a play, and some people in his hotel thought he was a pimp, and she was a prostitute. Security was called, and a fight broke out.

[NotchJohnson]

Why is he chiming in now? Trying to remind people he was. Down with the struggle?

[Ghost of SVR4]

[Da Coyote]

Tell you what, Denzel, I’ll take all those N word insults you’ve received, and I’ll also take your millions.

Deal?

Oh, by the way, I was brought up by Louisiana folks who taught me very very early in life that if they ever heard that word come from my lips, I’d never sit down again. And these were swampwater cajun parents.

[driftdiver]

I’ve always thought he was one of the good guys. Not so sure anymore.

[MeshugeMikey]

theres money in the game...somewhere.

[Westbrook]

Oh, please. I grew up in a mixed neighborhood - Irish, Greek, Italian, French, Spanish, Jew, and WASP. We all had ethic epithets for eachother. We were okay with it after a few slugfests. But if somebody outside the neighborhood used one of those names, we'd tell him, "Hey, that's MY . We can call him that but you can't."

[Altura Ct.]

So what?

[Mears]

“Denzel Washington’s experience shooting his new movie The Equalizer in Boston revived memories of racial discrimination he encountered more than 30 years ago. “

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Thirty years ago?

Shut up,Denzel.

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[ilgipper]

Oh...there’s racism in Boston? I thought it was all those evil southerners.

Truth be told, the northeast and especially Boston are the most racist in the country in word and deed. Not those redneck republicans in the south.

[skeeter]

This seems to be the preferred way certain folks promote their movies these days.

[I want the USA back]

The race card allows you to go back hundreds of years, even before you were born, to things that have no bearing on anything today.

[lacrew]

Thirty year old white guilt?

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

I missed the memo for whitey committee meeting that votes for someone to go to these public events and spout the nword.

[Lacey]

Seems like he’s made comments like this before.

[roofgoat]

because after Lil Mike got shot running away with his hands up, 99% of all visual and written media got their ORDERS to bury the public in stories about white privilege and white racism.

Same as a few years ago when ALL the media covered the “River of Guns” flowing from US gun shops and shows to poor Mexico killing their innocent citizens. F & F (nor Wide Receiver) were known by very few at the time.

Lies are the truth now, truth is evil and racist.

[Dalberg-Acton]

Thirty Years a Slave . . .

[Maceman]

My 75-year old Jewish uncle talks about his youth growing up in Dawchestah, Massachusetts.

Imitating what he heard from his Irish neighborhood peers while he was growing up (usually as a prelude to a beating), he holds his finger under his nose and pushes up his nostrils (imitating a pug nose), and says: “You killed owa LAWD!”

[CincyRichieRich]

Is he running out of money? Hmm