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By the time Quentin Tarantino arrived in Hollywood, Denzel Washington was already a legend. The latter’s films were unequivocally and unilaterally some of the best productions to have come out of the industry in the 80s and 90s. As such, when Tarantino’s enigma began to take over the scene for his unparalleled talent to whip up a script of unusual and unmatched potential, he was a person almost everybody wanted to get in league with including directors like the late great Tony Scott.
However, the one person Tarantino failed to impress with his untapped genius was the Equalizer himself. In the mid-90s to early 2000s, this animosity would fester and rot until eventually coming to a slow halt due to an unexpected mediator.
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Quentin Tarantino’s Skills Don’t Impress Denzel Washington
Quentin Tarantino‘s genius lies in his ability to look to a place beyond race, gender, class, and social barriers and hone a screenplay that can purely delve into each of these subjects in an unbiased form by highlighting, questioning, subverting, or overtly depicting the socio-political themes in every work that he produces.
Mixed with the best elements from the previous decades of Hollywood, be it Westerns, slashers, or pure pulp fiction, the stories of revenge drama that haunt Quentin Tarantino’s scripts could easily get mistaken for too complex or perhaps even racist (inDenzel Washington‘s case) if not looked at closely and within the context.
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During the filming of Tony Scott’sCrimson Tide(1995) starring Washington and Gene Hackman, theMalcolm Xstar took offense to scriptwriter Quentin Tarantino’s dialogue which he deemed as racist, even going so far as to publicly confront him about it on set. From there, the relationship deteriorated until an interview withGQin 2012 revealed what led to the pair burying their hatchet.
Denzel Washington Comes Clean About His Feud With QT
Over the course of a conversation withGQin October 2012, Denzel Washington revealed a few matters that led him to rethink his feud with theDjango Unchaineddirector:
“My oldest daughter—I see her digging her independence. She doesn’t like me talking about it, but she’s working with Tarantino. Isn’t that interesting how life goes?… I buried that hatchet. I sought him out ten years ago. I told him, “Look, I apologise.” You’ve just gotta let that go. You gonna walk around with that the rest of your life? He seemed relieved. And then here we are ten years later, and my daughter’s working with him. Life is something.”
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On the other hand, Denzel Washington’s son,John David Washingtonis doing great work, progressing in leaps and bounds in the industry. In the few years since he has been here, Washington Jr. has starred in three major films with renowned directors: Spike Lee’sBlacKkKlansman(2018), Christopher Nolan’sTenet(2020), and Sam Levinson’sMalcolm & Marie(2021).
His upcoming film,The Creator, directed by esteemed and talented director Gareth Edwards (Godzilla,Rogue One) will premiere on 10 June 2025. Denzel Washington’sTheEqualizer 3, directed by Antoine Fuqua, will premiere on 26 July 2025.
Diya Majumdar
Senior Writer
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Diya Majumdar is a Senior Content Writer at FandomWire with over 2000 published articles on the website. Since 2022, she has been working as an entertainment journalist with a special focus on films and pop culture.Among the countless genres and themes of Hollywood, the ones that particularly favor Diya’s tastes include Game of Thrones, DC, and well-aged thrillers and classics.
