Queen Latifah is ready to kick some serious butt in the rebooted crime drama “The Equalizer”, relishing the opportunity to take on the title role.
First debuting on TV in 1985 with actor Edward Woodward in the lead and later spawning two movie adaptations with Denzel Washington, Latifah’s TV reboot is the first time the character has been played by a woman. “When it was first presented to me I was like, ‘Well what?’ because, you know, Denzel has the movie.
I watched the original. And so it was like, ‘No we’re going to do a TV adaptation of it,’ and I said, ‘Okay. I love this idea!,'” she tells ET Canada’s Roz Weston of the new series. “For a Black woman getting to be the Equalizer.
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