(ANSA) - ROME, SEPTEMBER 18 - Denzel Washington's fourth film as a director (after Antwone Fisher, The Great Debaters - The power of the word and Barriere) will be "a beautiful and delicate story of love and loss".
The actor, two times Oscar winner, said so at the Toronto Film Film Festival where he was the protagonist of an online conversation with Barry Levinson, in which they shared anecdotes and reflections on their journey in cinema and not only.
Although they have never worked together, what unites them is the relationship with the ten-year-old production house Bron Studios and the recent collaboration between their children.
In fact, Sam Levinson (Euphoria), one of the most original and provocative screenwriters and directors emerging in Hollywood, directed Denzel's son, John David Washington (protagonist of Tenet) and Zendaya, in the first film shot using anticovid protocols in the USA, the story of the couple Malcolm & Marie, which Netflix just acquired for $ 30 million.
"It's a beautiful film - comments Levinson - and John David offers a wonderful performance, you must be proud of him, Denzel".
Washington says he is very proud of his son "and of the road he is taking" even though "I was the last in the family to understand that he wanted to be an actor.
Perhaps because he was having a successful career in football, he had arrived at the NFL. He was living a dream that I had also had. Instead he wanted to be like his dad. "
Washington, which for years has been promoting and supporting dozens of benefit programs in the United States and the rest of the world, many of which also to promote the right to education for the most disadvantaged groups (for example the Boys 'and Girls' Clubs of America), had also paid ( as revealed by the star of Black Panther) the tuition for acting studies of Chadwick Boseman, who died prematurely of a tumor: "He was a kind man, had a kind soul and a great talent. I had met him with director Ryan Coogler, at the premiere of Black Panther - says Washington -. During the film I was moved, seeing this new generation that was advancing ".
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