Denzel Washington has his own vision of the debate on the culture of cancellation.
While discussing his latest film, “High Lest 2 the lowest”, with new complexes, the actor asked the question: “What does that mean – to cancel?” When he was asked if he worries about being “canceled”.
When it is said by the interviewer, Jillian Hardeman-Webb, “that means that you lose public support,” replied Washington, “Who cares?”
Sitting with a frequent collaborator and the “highest 2 lowest” Spike Lee director, Washington continued: “What made public support so important to start?”
Hardeman-Webb replied that “subscribers are now currency”, to which Washington responded with an embarrassment.
“I don’t care whoever follows who,” he said. “You cannot direct and follow at the same time, and you cannot follow and direct at the same time. I am no one. I am a celestial spirit. I am God, I am not man. I have faith in God. I have hope in man, but I look around, it does not work so well.”
He added: “You cannot be canceled if you have not registered. Do not register.” Laughing and stretching his arms, he said to Lee: “Do not launch me. You know, the chest becomes tightened to talk about it. ”
Having a similar attitude, Lee added: “I don’t care.”
This is not the first time that Washington has expressed the way it has not been affected by public opinion. In a conversation with journalist Jake Hamilton on “Jake’s Takes”, the winner of the Oscars shared that he does not care to win the Oscars.
“I don’t do it for the Oscars,” he said. “I really don’t care about this kind of thing.”
Washington continued: “I have been there for a long time, and there are times when I won, should not have won, I did not win, should have won. The man receives the prize. God gives the reward. I am not so interested in the Oscars. People say, “Well, where do you keep it?” I say: “next to the other”. »»
“I am not praising myself. I just tell you what I feel about this subject. The last day, it won’t do me a little good,” he finished.
