When the studio asked, “Can you make room for a white protagonist?” Nair responded, “I can promise you one thing, that all the waiters in this film will be white.”
When we started with the non-love stuff in the movie, Denzel was just consummate, I mean, man, he’s just in his being. He would enter the restaurant in the scene and he would just be so deeply natural and completely charismatic at the same time. It was just so real. But when it came to the love stuff, I was not feeling it.I also should tell you that I was warned by a good friend, Spike Lee, he used to tease me and say, “Denzel is not going to take his shirt off.
I would just laugh internally and think,But I still didn’t get this vulnerability thing that I myself was feeling. The stupor, the love stupor. I remember he’d won the Oscar for, and I was this second-time filmmaker pacing outside his trailer, really nervous. I walked into the trailer and I said, “Denzel, I’m getting everything, you’re doing this, you’re doing that, it’s fantastic.” And then he looked at me like,I said, “I’m not getting the vulnerability that love can cause.
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