“One of our best and finest”: Kerry Washington on how Delroy Lindo became an “American treasure”
An underrated hero.
Malcolm X
The performance that robbed Denzel Washington of an Oscar, according to Spike Lee
A contentious defeat.
The real reason Samuel L Jackson and Spike Lee feuded for years: “I thought we had a relationship”
Cinema was robbed of this duo for 22 long years
The Spike Lee movie he says couldn’t be made today: “It is not an exaggeration”
Lee thinks this masterpiece would be impossible to mount today
The classic movie Sidney Poitier told Eddie Murphy to turn down: “You’re not Denzel”
He was better off staying in his lane.
The director Spike Lee called a master: “We were looking at the great epics”
He inspired Lee’s greatest work.
The movie Denzel Washington didn’t want to stop shooting: “I just kept going and going”
He couldn’t stay there forever.
