Inside Denzel Washington and Will Smith’s Friendship Through the Years: I ‘Always Call Denzel’
usmagazine.comFriends, actors and mentors. Since Will Smith rocketed to fame in the 1990s, his acting career has frequently been compared to Denzel Washington.“Throughout the years, I would always call Denzel.
He’s a real sage,” the King Richard star told GQ in November 2021.During the interview, Smith remembered a time when he reached out to the older actor for advice when he felt unsure about where to go next in both his career and personal life. “I was probably 48 or something like that and I called Denzel,” he recalled. “He said, ‘Listen.
You’ve got to think of it as the funky 40. Everybody’s 40s are funky.’ He said, ‘But just wait till you hit the f–k-it 50s,’”Smith continued: “He said, ‘Just bear with your 40s.’ I stopped and I was like, ‘The funky 40s and the f–k-it 50s.’ And that’s exactly what happened.
It just became the f–k-it 50s, and I gave myself the freedom to do whatever I wanted to do.”The pair’s decades-long friendship made headlines in March 2022, when the Training Day star comforted Smith after he slapped Chris Rock during the Oscars.
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