They’re constantly looking for the younger one, the younger one, and for African American women, women of color, it’s doubly hard. “Don’t have a couple of kids you’re out the door. “Black or white, there seems to be a cut-off for women,” he said. In recent years, Denzel also stated this about the plight of actresses overall: (Photo by Bruce Glikas/Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic) It was his idea to take the damn scenes out.” Denzel Washington signs autographs at the opening night of ‘The Iceman Cometh’ on Broadway at The Jacobs Theatre on Apin New York City.

“Don’t I have a pulse? Of course I wanted to kiss Denzel. also quoted Julia Roberts as saying this about Denzel’s refusal to get lovey dovey with her on-screen: And they have always been my core audience.” Washington explained: “Black women are not often seen as objects of desire on film. Washington nixed the steamy segment even though Roberts insisted that he be cast as her co-star in “The Pelican Brief,” writes Samuels, a respected Newsweek reporter. NYDailyNews reported this about Denzel’s choices to keep his on-screen kisses off limits with his White female co-stars:ĭenzel Washington once turned down a love scene with Julia Roberts out of loyalty to his female African-American fans, Allison Samuels reveals in her new book, “Off the Record” (Amistad). It had been twenty years (in 1992’s Malcolm X) since Denzel had kissed a White woman on screen until more recently in the 2012 movie, “Flight.” He had his reason for not doing so and it had nothing to do with him disliking White women or anything like that, but it apparently had a lot to do with with his respect for Black women and his disapproval of how Black actresses were all too often not seen as the object of affection when it came to major motion pictures, so he didn’t want to feed into that stereotype. See what he revealed about this below… Julia Roberts & Denzel Washington during The 74th Annual Academy Awards (Photo by Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage)

Denzel had his reasons for stepping away from on-screen kisses with his sistas from another mista. He’s been known to turn down scenes that required him to kiss Julia Roberts and other White female co-stars in the past, while accepting scenes that called for him to kiss his African American co-stars.

Throughout the years, Denzel Washington was often questioned about why he never kissed White women in his films and eventually the real reason came out.

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