“Let’s talk about the black and white of it all,” Washington recalls saying to Coen in an early conversation. Coen began to respond, “Well, you’re Black …” before Washington stopped him. “No,…
“Let’s talk about the black and white of it all,” Washington recalls saying to Coen in an early conversation.
“In fact, I never enjoyed headlining and directing,” Washington says. “I acted in the movies because I needed to in order to get the money to direct them. So now, for me, this feels like the first film I’ve directed, because I’m not in it. That’s the way I prefer it.” Michael B. Jordan, who is directing himself in “Creed III,” tried to absorb everything he could from Washington. “To be mentored by him and learn his process, it was an all-around master class for myself,” says the 34-year-old star.
But even Washington isn’t immune to a changing industry. “A Journal for Jordan,” which opened to $2.2 million, is on a long list of traditional prestige pictures — from Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story” to Guillermo del Toro’s “Nightmare Alley” — that struggled at the box office in the age of COVID. “Macbeth,” in limited release, has also seen modest ticket sales.
But there’s one way in which Washington is definitely old school. You won’t find him on Twitter or Instagram — he prefers to keep the spotlight out of his private life and to stay off the gossip pages. That’s why it was so shocking when Washington’s name was splashed across the tabloids a few months ago. In 2015, he directed an episode of “Grey’s Anatomy,” the only time he’s stepped behind the camera for a TV show.
After performing in a play at Fordham University, he learned an important lesson. “The first play I did was a musical,” he says. That was a 1988 production of “Checkmates,” with Ron Milner playing Sylvester Williams. “I thought I could sing until I found out that I couldn’t.” Washington accepted the role because he saw it as a chance to work with “three of the greats” — Coen, McDormand and Shakespeare.
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