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Sweating it out in Out of Time
Oscar-winning actor Denzel Washington expands his range in yet another cop movie
By Angela Baldassarre
Originally Published: 2003-10-19
Making love to Denzel Washington isn't the worst thing that can happen to a woman, but according to the Oscar-winning actor they're perhaps the hardest scenes to shoot.
"I know they hate it," smiles the 48-year-old heartthrob. " I feel very protective of my leading ladies. Cynda Williams [Mo' Better Blues], Sarita Choudhury [Mississippi Masala], Milla Jovovich [He Got Game] now Sanaa Lathan [Out of the Time] and even Eva Mendes [Out of Time], and I always feel for the woman, I feel sort of protective.
"I remember with Sarita, even though it was a woman director, Mira Nair, it always seems like the guys have something to do in the room that day. 'I just have to do something...' I'd say 'Get out!' There's nothing sexy about it. It's real acting because it's me, Sanaa and 100 of our closest friends with microphones and they're saying 'be sexy, now go, take 40' and that's tough."
Washington explains one such scene in Out of Time: "There's a shot where we kick through the bathroom door and the camera comes around and meets us on the other side, and I'm ready, I've been lifting weights to try to look sexy. I'm lifting her [Lathan], and take one and doing it, and by take 18, she's not that light anymore, my shoulders are out of socket by then; take 21 and I'm beat, even if she is 100 pounds. That scene was one of the toughest."
Poor Denzel. We'd love to help soothe his pain...
But work on Out of Time wasn't just sex games and play. Set in Miami and directed by Carl Franklin (Devil in the Blue Dress), the drama centres on Banyan Key, Florida chief of police Matt Lee Whitlock (Washington). Whitlock is respected by his peers and loved by his community, but when Banyan Key is shocked by a double homicide, everything he thought he knew starts to unravel, and he finds himself in a race against time to solve the murders before he himself falls under suspicion. Mendes plays his estranged wife and Lathan a new love interest.
The original script had the setting as Buffalo, New York, but producers decided to sexy up the tale but placing it in sultry hot Miami, Florida.
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