{"id":519183,"date":"2026-03-06T23:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T23:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/519183\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T23:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T23:43:09","slug":"former-nyc-mayor-eric-adams-wants-denzel-washington-to-play-him-in-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/519183\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NYC Mayor Eric Adams Wants Denzel Washington to Play Him in Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Adams
\n King Kong Ain’t Got S*** on Me …
\n But Denzel Washington Might!!!<\/p>\n

\n Published
\n March 6, 2026
\n 8:08 AM PST\n <\/p>\n

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Eric Adams<\/a> says he’s not ready to go full Hollywood just yet … but, if he did, he’s eyeing a two-time Oscar winner to play him on the big screen.<\/p>\n

We caught up with the former mayor of New York City at LAX Thursday … and, we asked him who he wants to portray him in a biopic about his life.<\/p>\n

Adams was pretty quick with his reply … telling us he thinks Denzel Washington<\/a> would crush it as him — unsurprising given DW crushes pretty much every role he takes. That said, Adams says he’s not looking to get into H’wood … telling us he’s not interested in jumping back into the public eye.<\/p>\n

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We also asked ex-Mayor Adams how life’s going since his exit from public office … and, he says he’s loving every minute of it — he’s flying all over the world for his new job in the private sector.<\/p>\n

As for how his replacement, Zohran Mamdani<\/a>, is doing … Adams isn’t lauding the dude’s performance just yet — telling us he thinks Mayor Mamdani is finally realizing idealism is nice, but realism actually gets stuff done.<\/p>\n

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The former mayor also gave us his thoughts on the war raging in the Middle East after the United States and Israel attacked Iran<\/a> last weekend … watch the clip all the way through to hear his thoughts.<\/p>\n

Eric Adams and Denzel Washington … now that’s an ‘Unstoppable’ duo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eric Adams King Kong Ain’t Got S*** on Me … But Denzel Washington Might!!! Published March 6, 2026…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-519183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}