Actor John David Washington on escaping his father's shadow: ‘I was determined to prove and prove’
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telegraph.co.ukTenet, is Hollywood’s brave post-coronavirus canary down the coal mine. After the global shutdown, it will be the first major blockbuster on the big screen, and Washington the new world’s first action hero.
No pressure, then.‘That’s one way of looking at it,’ Washington, who turns 36 later this month, says nonchalantly. ‘There’s also the feeling that we will be the only show in town…’He is pathologically laid-back about the whole thing.
We speak at the end of May, when he has been in lockdown in Los Angeles, at the home of his parents, Denzel Washington and his wife of 37 years, Pauletta.Perhaps it’s his upbringing, watching his impossibly cool father, a man he cites as ‘one of the best actors that ever lived’, operate through life.
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