As the cast and crew of Equalizer 3 celebrate the fact that they won the Labor Day weekend box office with the third installment grossing $43 million domestically, the film's director Antoine Fuqua says he tried to get the film's star Denzel Washington to stop.
via JJ:
Antoine explained that he only tried to stop Denzel because he didn’t want the 68-year-old to break anything.
“He’s still got it,” he shared with Yahoo Entertainment. “He trains every day. I’d have to tell Denzel, ‘Let me get the stunt guy to do this one,’ He’s like ‘I got it!’ You have to protect him from himself!”
Antoine admits that he doesn’t want Denzel to injure himself, but still appreciated him wanting to do his own stunts.
“There are very few actors who are on that level,” he says. “He’s just one of the greats, he’s a GOAT.”
Find out which other stars do – and don’t – do their own stunts on movies.
Look, if Tom Cruise at 61 gets to scale tall buildings in Abu Dhabi, and dive off cliffs with a motorcycle in the Mission Impossible movies, and Keanu Reeves at 58 gets to do his own action scenes in the John Wick movies, why can't Denzel get in on the action at damn near 70?
I personally would love to see more action movies with older women at the helm. Where's Halle Berry's solo Sofia movie? What's going on with the Charlize Theron-led sequel to The Old Guard?
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