In September, the happiest thing is that the children have started school and "Creed" is about to be released.
Nolan's self-written and self-directed new work, which traveled to seven countries in seven months, not only burned $205 million in the most expensive blockbuster he has ever made, but has also been hailed by the media as a unique spy thriller that breaks through the boundaries of narrative and time.
Because of the epidemic, the film has been adjusted three times, and began global screenings at the end of last month, Chinese mainland scheduled to be released on September 4.
Must be brushed up!
The male protagonist of the film is the male actor John David Washington (hereinafter referred to as JDW), the eldest son of the actor Denzel Washington.
There are six Chinese New Year's Eve this year, and JDW previously starred in the HBO sports drama "Ballers", cooperating with Dwayne Johnson.
In Spike Lee's crime comedy BlacKk Klansman, JDW plays Ron Stalworth, the first African-American detective at the Colorado Springs Police Department.
Then there's Nolan's "Creed," which looks pretty star-studded, but it's not.
In the past, the male protagonists of Nolan's films were not popular A-list actors: Little Plum Leonardo DiCaprio, Christian Bale, Hugh Hugh Jackman, Matthew McConaughey... JDW is one of the least well-known, and also carries the aura of the father of the movie emperor, and the pressure is not small.
The actor, who is destined to set off a topic in September, is definitely not a male classmate without a story.
Let's start with his god-level father.
As a film actor, Denzel Washington is a hollywood veteran who has won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and a Best Actor (2001 film Training Day). He was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 73rd Golden Globe Awards in 2016 and the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 47th American Film Institute in 2019.
His private life is also a rare stream, and he fell in love with pauletta Washington, the wife of the actor/singer/pianist, at first sight, married in 1983 and has four sons for 37 years.
The four children grew up cool from small to large, and there was no one left.
Growing up in California, he also grew up on the set. JDW told Gentleman magazine that as a child, he looked a few feet away from the monitor, the actors were performing, and each character became vivid on the small monitor, which was a magical world of light and shadow.
In 1992, at just 7 years old, JDW made a cameo appearance in his father's black biopic "Kuroshio Malcolm X", starring Spike Lee, which was also significant to Denzel Washington, earning him his first Oscar nomination.
However, before the age of 30, JDW's identity was actually a rugby player.
In high school, JDW was named a letterman for his performance in football, basketball, and athletics. After graduating from high school, he could have gone to a more prestigious institution, but he chose to attend Morehouse College and became an alumnus with Martin Luther King, Jr., Spike Lee, and Samuel Jackson.
In college, JDW was very low-key, and the summer before the start of his first semester, he made a pact with his new teammates: Don't tell anyone who my dad is. At first, this trick worked, but it wasn't long before his last name was exposed, and everyone knew it.
There is no other way but to do the best.
In college, JDW not only broke the school record with a running pace of 1198 yards in its senior year of college, but also maintained the school's single-race (242 yards) record and career (3699 yards) running record.
In the spring of 2006, just before graduation, the NFL draft began and JDW lost, but the next day he received news from his agent that he had been invited to St. Louis Rams training camp as an unsuccessful free agent.
This was the first time he had succeeded on his own, and the whole family was overjoyed. In the 2007 offseason, JDW played for the Rhein Fire of the European National Rugby Union. During its 2009 UFL season premiere, JDW was drafted by the California Redwoods (later sacramento mountain lions) of the NFL.
Fate is often so cruel.
In the summer of 2013, JDW was training for the New York Giants outside Los Angeles. That day, halfway through the practice, he felt an unusual noise coming from his legs, and when he looked down, something like a bug was squirming under the skin of his calf.
sky! That's my Achilles tendon.
At that moment, he knew that his career was officially over.
Just after his 29th birthday, he completed the Achilles tendon repair surgery, in fact, there are not many career options left for JDW: he can't play, he can still be a coach; he doesn't work in the football industry, he also has a sociology diploma in hand.
"I felt like some part of my body was dead, and although I didn't know what fate awaited me, I knew I should be on stage."
When he first participated in the audition, JDW "repeated the same technique" and deliberately concealed his father's true identity. He told Mr. Porter: "People change their faces as soon as they hear my father's name, so I often lie that my father is a construction worker or is still in prison, otherwise even if I am excellent, they will not see." ”
Hahaha this kid!
Believe that good works speak for themselves. In 2015, he called his family friend and agent, Andrew Finkelstein, who was working on a series about rugby players.
Before receiving the JDW call, she had interviewed hundreds of male actors, but she had never found a suitable candidate who was both athletically talented and could interpret several complex emotions of arrogance, obnoxiousness and vulnerability, and these were just the JDW at the low point of life.
The audition was known only to his mother, who sent him to the set, and after more than a dozen auditions, he finally won the role, which told his father: I want to be an actor.
Dad didn't believe it at first, and Denzel, who had been making movies for many years, didn't even know much about HBO, but in the end, he was happy for his son and gave JDW one piece of advice: "Work extremely hard." This doesn't guarantee you'll succeed, but if you can't, you certainly won't. ”
The most patient beasts of prey will wait patiently for the fattest prey. It wasn't until the crew of "Ballers" began that the JDW family didn't know he had changed careers, and Ballers became one of HBO's highest-rated comedies.
This step is stable, where is the next step?
I have to say jdw's luck is too good.
The list of nominees for the 88th Academy Awards in 2016 was made public, and the 20 actors were all white (as last year), which caused strong dissatisfaction and public protest from Spike Lee, who had only won the Oscar Lifetime Achievement Award the year before, and then black actor Will Smith also clearly expressed his support for his wife Jada's boycott of the Oscars, and protested by not attending the awards ceremony...
We are so stronger than gold!
This vigorous "Oscar too white" storm has been delayed so far, from the academic school to Hollywood film and television companies have begun to reform, from actors to production teams to film and television projects have begun to promote ethnic diversity.
In such an era of correctness and artistry coexistence and game, JDW is definitely not worried about no drama to shoot.
After "Ballers", he starred in two Sundance Film Festival releases, Monsters and Men, "All Rise"; also performed in the legendary filmmaker Robert Redford's "The Old Man & the Gun", Spike Lee sent him the story outline of "The Party" before the script was completed, and pre-booked the second generation of stars who grew up watching him grow up...
The film competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival and eventually won the Grand Jury Prize, and the role was also nominated for a Golden Globe award and an Actors Guild Award for Best Actor for JDW.
The film meant a lot to JDW. He told Gentleman magazine that after winning the Cannes Prize, he tried to stay calm until he got into the car and couldn't stop crying like a baby. He said: "Even when I was a player, I never received such an honor... I was finally recognized as an artist John David, not someone's son. ”
At this time, he may not have imagined that on the night of the film's premiere in Cannes, there was a middle-aged man named Christopher Nolan sitting on the stage, who admired JDW's performance and invited him to audition for his new film, which is "Creed".
"It feels like fate has arranged."
Of course, Nolan's own version is much more pragmatic, he had seen Ballers before Cannes, when he didn't know what jdw background was, but was impressed with him, and then he arranged an audition. Nolan said: "The first time I spoke to him, I could feel that he was on the rise and from a filmmaker's selfish point of view, I immediately wanted to be part of his acting journey. ”
Obedient, this evaluation is not low!
If the previous works have the blessings of heaven and place, in front of nolan at the level of the god, no one can find any excuse for his unprofessionalism.
How brain-burning is "Creed"? JDW told the Canadian version of Entertainment Tonight that it took him 4 hours to sort out the narrative structure just by reading the script for the first time, and when filming began, he found himself taking it for granted.
"I was confident at first, but then I realized that it was not easy to keep up with Nolan's concept."
The intensity of "Creed" has made jdww, who was once a professional football player, a bit overwhelmed, and Nolan is looking at his athlete background.
"For days I couldn't get out of bed, and for weeks I wondered if I could finish the shoot, feeling like I was dying of exhaustion. When I was in a big league, I had to practice hard every day to keep my job, and the same was the feeling of being an actor, and this movie was worth my fight. ”
Sure enough, his injuries left him unable to run for a whole month.
JDW's dedication even another male protagonist, Robert Pattinson, is very impressed: "The biggest amount of exercise for my character is just going here and there, and he runs all day, it sounds very unfair, right?!" (How does it feel so cool?) ）”
When looking for information, I found this old photo: JDW and his father watching the Lakers and Spurs games at Stamps Stadium, and he still looked a little nervous and shy.
Today, the anxiety and lack of self-confidence he had when he first entered the industry are no longer there, which is the power of transformation.
Again, there is no casual success in the world, and everyone knows that it is easy to do and difficult to face.
See you in the cinema.
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