“She doesn’t like me talking about it”: Denzel Washington Had to Apologize to Quentin Tarantino for His Wild Accusations After His Own Daughter Started Working With Director Years Later

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 (in Denzel Washington‘s case) if not looked at closely and within the context.

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During the filming of Tony Scott’s Crimson Tide (1995) starring Washington and Gene Hackman, the Malcolm X star 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 with GQ in 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 with GQ in October 2012, Denzel Washington revealed a few matters that led him to rethink his feud with the Django Unchained director:

“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 Washington is 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’s BlacKkKlansman (2018), Christopher Nolan’s Tenet (2020), and Sam Levinson’s Malcolm & Marie (2021).

His upcoming film, The Creator, directed by esteemed and talented director Gareth Edwards (Godzilla, Rogue One) will premiere on 23 September 2023. Denzel Washington’s The Equalizer 3, directed by Antoine Fuqua, will premiere on 1 September 2023.

Source: GQ