Denzel Washington Refused to Kiss Julia Roberts Because She Was White

There are probably tons of people out there who would have jumped at the opportunity to lock lips with Julia Roberts for her 1993 film The Pelican Brief. After all, the timeless beauty hasn't been named the world's most beautiful woman five times for no reason. However, Denzel Washington apparently had no interest in smooching Roberts, so he opted out of a kissing scene.

The actor reportedly decided not to film the scene with Roberts because he did not want to play into Hollywood's biased beauty ideals and alienate fans. Allison Samuels, a writer for Newsweek and the Daily Beast, talked about Washington's decision in her 2007 book, Off the Record: A Reporter Unveils the Celebrity Worlds of Hollywood, Hip-hop, and Sports. According to Samuels, the Oscar-winner had this to say about foregoing that cinematic kiss: "Black women are not often seen as objects of desire on film. And they have always been my core audience."

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by Anonymousreply 87August 25, 2018 6:11 AM

This story is old as hell OP.

by Anonymousreply 2August 3, 2018 8:22 PM

To penalize Denzel's racism Julia forced him to give her piggy-back rides on demand at unexpected times..

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by Anonymousreply 3August 3, 2018 8:28 PM

Thankfully we don't live in 1993 anymore, Denzel Washington thought it was fine to kiss his white love interest in "Flight"

by Anonymousreply 5August 3, 2018 8:30 PM

He wanted to slap her instead. And really, who could blame him?

by Anonymousreply 6August 3, 2018 8:39 PM

R3, Julia is such an attention whore for doing that. Regardless whether you like Denzel or not, it was his moment and Julia just HAD to put herself in it. Even Ann Coulter wrote an article about it.

by Anonymousreply 7August 3, 2018 8:45 PM

R7 oh well if Ann Coulter wrote about it, it MUST be credible!

by Anonymousreply 8August 3, 2018 8:55 PM

This also reminds me of when Eriq La Salle was pissed when his ER character was paired with a white character. The writers ended the storyline to make La Salle happy.

by Anonymousreply 9August 3, 2018 9:00 PM

^Talk about a blast from the past. WHET he and Noah Wylie?

by Anonymousreply 10August 3, 2018 9:12 PM

He was probably afraid she'd want him to fuck her too. She's fucked several of her male co-stars.

by Anonymousreply 11August 3, 2018 9:36 PM

Denzel was right though. Hollywood always tries to pair black men with white women on screen. That's not realistic at all.

White women are not the end all be all.

by Anonymousreply 12August 3, 2018 9:54 PM

He'd rather appear rascist than mention the real reason he didn't want to kiss that mega-slut. He didn't want to kiss her, because he didn't want to get an STD.

He dodged that herpes bullet!

by Anonymousreply 13August 3, 2018 10:00 PM

No bigger slut in Hollywood than Denzel. His list of mistresses is very long. Many of them white.

by Anonymousreply 14August 3, 2018 10:04 PM

Denzel not wanting to kiss a white woman doesn't make him racist at all. Black men are not obligated to kiss white women period.

R14 Link please or its bull shit. His wife would never put up with that ever.

by Anonymousreply 15August 3, 2018 10:22 PM

Heard this long ago.

Black women were a large part of his audience. Why alienate them?

Even more, the plot of that movie did not lead up to D & J smooching.

She was supposed to be someone who was devastated because she had seen her lover (Sam Shephard blown to bits. And she was running for her life.

by Anonymousreply 17August 3, 2018 11:33 PM

Umm didn't Denzel fuck her in real life? Hypocrite trying to kow tow to the black community. Everyone knows they fucked. Julia fucked nearly every male costar she had. Just like JLaw does. And anyone who doesn't think she got that bible boy from that wretched Passngers movie watches Fox News. You know very well she got that dick.

by Anonymousreply 18August 4, 2018 5:18 AM

Please, such bullshit. Was the kiss in the script when you signed on for the project, Denzel? He sure didn’t have a problem cashing that check though.

by Anonymousreply 19August 4, 2018 5:32 AM

Are you for real, r15? Denzel Washington has been known as a dog for years. Ask Sanaa Lathan if you don't believe us.

by Anonymousreply 20August 4, 2018 5:35 AM

R15 Julia and Denzel were fucking right under his wife's nose. Do you think she didn't know?

by Anonymousreply 21August 4, 2018 5:37 AM

R16 that picture says it all, body language does not lie and he’s pushing into her, not exactly recoiling in horror. Typical Hollywood phony.

by Anonymousreply 22August 4, 2018 5:38 AM

R20 Will she need to spit out a part of Beyonce to answer?

by Anonymousreply 23August 4, 2018 5:39 AM

I thought they had an affair?

by Anonymousreply 24August 4, 2018 5:40 AM

R21 i don’t think his black fans want to believe he’s just like any other asshole who cheats on his wife.

by Anonymousreply 25August 4, 2018 5:43 AM

R24 they've fucked on and off for years. Just like she has with Dermont Mulroney who says they're "best friends". Meanwhile he was drilling her while married to Catherine Keener.

by Anonymousreply 26August 4, 2018 5:44 AM

[R3], Julia is such an attention whore for doing that. Regardless whether you like Denzel or not, it was his moment and Julia just HAD to put herself in it. Even Ann Coulter wrote an article about it. —Anonymous reply 7

Did any women write about it?

by Anonymousreply 27August 4, 2018 5:45 AM

I like the pic of Denzel and Julia down each other's throats. That kiss don't lie. Julia remains friendly with most of her fuck partners. She's the female Warren Beatty. The men love her magic. Denzel has a Camille Cosby kind of wife. He's a good dad and she cashes the cheques. But he fucked lots of women and had longer lasting affairs too. The rumors were not big secrets. Costner and Gibson fucked like whores too but their wives grew sick of it and took the millions AND dumped their middle aged asses.

by Anonymousreply 28August 4, 2018 5:48 AM

If for his job he won't kiss a woman of another race, because of her race, that's racist.

by Anonymousreply 29August 4, 2018 5:49 AM

HOLD UP!

You’re telling me Julia fucked Durmott Mulroney AND Dylan McDermott?!?!

by Anonymousreply 30August 4, 2018 5:55 AM

Did Julia ever fuck Tom Hanks?

by Anonymousreply 31August 4, 2018 5:58 AM

r30. In a word yes. And who the fuck thinks Denzel's wife asking him to not fuck the most famous woman in world makes any differencecto him?

by Anonymousreply 32August 4, 2018 6:01 AM

Julia likes good looking men and big dick R31. And she gets them. Why do you think she is so irrationally hated on DL? Julia was a super dazzling magic pussy, wild ass Scorpio freak.

by Anonymousreply 34August 4, 2018 6:02 AM

I'm guessing no, r31. Of course according to Datalounge, I recently read Hanks was secretly gay. It was the first I'd heard of it, but I'd say they haven't fucked because Hanks seems really crabby and the type of guy immune to whatever charms Roberts might possess.

by Anonymousreply 35August 4, 2018 6:02 AM

Julia Roberts has good taste in men. She'd never fuck Tom Hanks. Gross.

by Anonymousreply 36August 4, 2018 6:07 AM

Tom says they are good friends. I think they're like gal pals. I've heard her say he's a great gossip buddy. I think Hanks is gay adjacent. He seems to get on great with women and not in a sexual sense.

by Anonymousreply 37August 4, 2018 6:09 AM

I wonder if Julia got Aaron Eckhart who seemed in awe of her. She always got approval on costars.

by Anonymousreply 38August 4, 2018 6:22 AM

She did NOT fuck Brad Pitt.

Interesting.

by Anonymousreply 39August 4, 2018 6:28 AM

R39 they're "best friends"

by Anonymousreply 40August 4, 2018 6:30 AM

HOLLYWOOD tries to pair black men and white women, R12?!

The only time you SEE an interracial couple out here in the real world, it's ALWAYS a black man and a white woman. NEVER a black woman and a white man.

by Anonymousreply 41August 4, 2018 6:33 AM

Didn't Mark Ruffalo get a go too ?

by Anonymousreply 42August 4, 2018 6:34 AM

R42 Richard Gere, Kiefer Sutherland, Jason Patric, Liam Neeson, Daniel Day Lewis, Dylan McDermont, Dermont Molroney, Denzel Washington, Billy Baldwin, Alec Baldwin, Bruce Willis, Dennis Quaid and Javier Bardem among others have supposedly taken a turn too.

by Anonymousreply 43August 4, 2018 6:41 AM

Julia did not sleep with Richard Gere, Pitt or Clooney. She likes men.

by Anonymousreply 44August 4, 2018 6:48 AM

Julia and Bruce Willis?? For real? Did they ever work together?

by Anonymousreply 45August 4, 2018 7:15 AM

She did NOT sleep with Bruce Willis! That's ridiculous.

She didn't bed Pitt because while shooting "The Mexican," she was busy with cameraman cock.

by Anonymousreply 46August 4, 2018 7:25 AM

Denzel did not sleep with Julia or anyone white. The only woman he was cheating with was Sanaa Lathan for many years. He even considered leaving his wife for her.

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by Anonymousreply 47August 4, 2018 2:30 PM

I much preferred this Washington-Roberts screen coupling.

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by Anonymousreply 49August 4, 2018 2:36 PM

I stopped reading at timeless beauty...puhlease.

by Anonymousreply 50August 4, 2018 2:53 PM

R47 you can lie to yourself but you’re not convincing anyone.

by Anonymousreply 51August 4, 2018 3:26 PM

[Quote] Julia was a super dazzling magic pussy, wild ass Scorpio freak.

I wonder if i have any other superpowers....?

by Anonymousreply 52August 4, 2018 4:06 PM

He's a terrible actor. You often can't see him because that big chip o n his shoulder blocks his face.

by Anonymousreply 54August 4, 2018 4:57 PM

Oh baloney. Didn’t worry about sticking his dick into her, offscreen.

“Washington, Denzel. Faithfulness to his wife is not a concept with which Mr. Washington is a familiar. Cruelly and quite chauvinistically crushed his wife's dreams of a singing career. Taps his female costars and then runs. Bisexual "but only when coked up."

by Anonymousreply 55August 4, 2018 4:57 PM

he didn't want to kiss a horse leave him alone!

by Anonymousreply 56August 4, 2018 4:59 PM

Sanaa Lathan looks great with short hair on “The Affair”. She has to kiss that ugmo Dominic West and you can tell neither of them want to do those sex scenes. Very cringey.

by Anonymousreply 57August 4, 2018 5:00 PM

Hmm...Didn't Denzel pull out of Love Field with Michelle Pfeiffer? Also early 90's and there was a kissing/love scene. Dennis Haysbert replaced him.

by Anonymousreply 58August 4, 2018 5:01 PM

Denzel pulled out of Julia Roberts and sprayed all over her back.

by Anonymousreply 59August 4, 2018 6:38 PM

[Quote] Denzel pulled out of Julia Roberts and sprayed all over her back.

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by Anonymousreply 60August 4, 2018 8:42 PM

[quote]Richard Gere, Kiefer Sutherland, Jason Patric, Liam Neeson, Daniel Day Lewis, Dylan McDermont, Dermont Molroney, Denzel Washington, Billy Baldwin, Alec Baldwin, Bruce Willis, Dennis Quaid and Javier Bardem among others have supposedly taken a turn too.

Amateur.

by Anonymousreply 61August 4, 2018 9:11 PM

I could have sworn there was a scene in a movie with Denzel wearing red underwear or a red jockstrap. The closest I could find was of him naked in a locker room scene in Ricochet.

Maybe it was another black actor I was thinking of?

by Anonymousreply 62August 4, 2018 9:37 PM

R62 Wesley Snipes in Wildcats?

by Anonymousreply 63August 4, 2018 9:49 PM

How does Denzel manage to balance the giant chip on his shoulder with the giant stick up his ass? Despite being an A-list star with 2 Oscars, he always seems so intensely unhappy.

by Anonymousreply 64August 4, 2018 10:33 PM

Typical DL hypocrisy again, siding with the party who comdems homosex and would like to see you burn in hell just because he's a guy, over the woman who never not voted for religious republican assholes.

Fuck Denzel, homophobic asshole. He's the worst kind!

Team Julia!

by Anonymousreply 65August 4, 2018 10:35 PM

Actors/Actresses are supposed to kiss whoever the director tells them to kiss in the context of a film.

Now, can you imagine if Julia Roberts or any white actress had the same discourse as Denzel ? Said she refused to kiss the main actor because he was black ? Imagine the unending scandal.

But back to my first idea, it is just unprofessional not to do what you signed to do.

by Anonymousreply 66August 4, 2018 10:58 PM

White people think black men have to bow down to whatever they want.

Assholes I don't think so!

by Anonymousreply 67August 5, 2018 12:13 AM

r63 no, maybe it was this guy from Major League. He kind of resembles Denzel.

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by Anonymousreply 68August 5, 2018 12:20 AM

Huh ! I'm sure they wanted to be progressist by having a mixt couple on the screen. Funny how KKK would probably agree with Denzel' s decision.

Funny times in America that the rest of the world don't understand.

by Anonymousreply 69August 5, 2018 12:23 AM

[quote]Hmm...Didn't Denzel pull out of Love Field with Michelle Pfeiffer? Also early 90's and there was a kissing/love scene. Dennis Haysbert replaced him.

R58, he didn't like how many times the n word was used in the script. I think that was fine.

[quote]Actors/Actresses are supposed to kiss whoever the director tells them to kiss in the context of a film.

Julia requested him for the film and that gave him a bit of power. Do I think he should have filmed the sex scenes? Yes. Do I think I get where he was coming from when he refused? Yes. Do I think it was stupid? Yes.

He was apparently very upset at the audience reaction from black audiences after his character in "The Mighty Quinn" had sex with a white woman. However, it was also 1989 and I doubt that would fly now.

by Anonymousreply 70August 5, 2018 12:35 AM

Who’d wanna kiss that ugly woman? As ugly on the outside as the inside.

by Anonymousreply 72August 5, 2018 12:52 AM

I told him to pull out. I told him to quit and not kiss her. Who am I? I'm Denzel's good friend Julie. I am a cunt.

by Anonymousreply 74August 5, 2018 12:55 AM

He said at the time he didn't think it was something that the character would do. The original character in the book was white.

by Anonymousreply 75August 5, 2018 1:16 AM

Yes R70. It's not as simple as many old white men here want to make it out to be. They hate Julia and think Denzel is a hack. When in fact they are both very good actors who happen to be movie stars.

Kissing a white woman on screen was not brave 25 years ago. It was barely even a choice. Name another black movie STAR who had the ladies shook and the men in admiration who had a white female love interest with overt love scenes back then?

Plus, Denzel wanted to project a certain image to black men and women. It was probably false and hypocritical but that was his self crafted line. He worked hard for years so that the whole of his work would stand for something of excellence to the black community. Takes white folk to make you a major star too but that was based on his looks and talent and bankability. Black and white audiences were against interracial love scenes when Poitier was a star and not much happier about it with Denzel. We loved Whitney and Costner, but there was nothing carnal about them.

Will Smith, Eddie Murphy and the other BIG box office guys all followed the same unwritten rule onscreen as Denzel. Never go lighter than Puerto Rican. I am a bit too young to know when it all changed but it hasn't in a good way. Halle Berry and Billy Bob took it fucking far, no disservice to anyone. But that's not Denzel's gig. Not on screen.

Dennis Haysbert is always sexy and substantial. He's the go to actor for making out with the white ladies before he gets run out of town or killed. Denzel didn't want to play that part.

He still fucked Julia though. I'd love to watch, ha.

by Anonymousreply 76August 5, 2018 3:12 AM

Julia also fucked Mel Gibson and Ethan Hawke.

by Anonymousreply 77August 5, 2018 3:51 AM

My God who didn't Julia fuck? She got all the good dick.

by Anonymousreply 78August 5, 2018 3:52 AM

R78 why do you think the ancient DL queens hate her so emphatically?

by Anonymousreply 79August 5, 2018 3:55 AM

She really was the female a Warren Beatty. It's also strange everyone that nailed her speaks of her with such great regard.

by Anonymousreply 80August 5, 2018 3:58 AM

He fucked her offscreen. EVERYONE knows that. What a hypocrite.

by Anonymousreply 81August 5, 2018 4:12 AM

She got a lot of dick. But don't think there wasnt a few of these guys that fucked her because they were fucking "Julia Roberts".

by Anonymousreply 82August 5, 2018 4:16 AM

R76 Puerto Rican’s come in all kinds of shades though

by Anonymousreply 83August 5, 2018 6:09 AM

That's rich. He won't kiss a superstar on screen but he fucks her offscreen. Ok.

by Anonymousreply 84August 25, 2018 5:26 AM

AIKC??? Be more vague please. So we make sure to not understand

by Anonymousreply 86August 25, 2018 5:54 AM

He always looked awkward like he didn't want to kiss Nicole Kidman after she won the Oscar. (this was right after Adrian Brody mauled Halle Berry, he didn't want a repeat of that apparently)

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by Anonymousreply 87August 25, 2018 6:11 AM

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