Malcolm X; The Tragedy Of Macbeth; Crimson Tide; The Hurricane; Training Day.
ILLUSTRATION SELMAN HOŞGÖR
IT’S EASY TO take Denzel Washington for granted: he’s so prolific, so consistently reliable, but… the man is a titan. As one of only five actors in history to be nominated for an Academy Award in five different decades, he consistently does the business. With an ever-imposing screen presence, Washington is one of the most stalwart and reliably talented actors of his generation, choosing characters that he always makes surprising and nuanced — from his cocksure young cop in bonkers ’90s action movie Ricochet, to an ageing, anguished, roaring Macbeth in Joel Coen’s recent Shakespeare adaptation. We take a look at what maketh the man.