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‘Highest 2 Lowest’ trailer: Denzel Washington back with Spike Lee<\/p>\n
New York City music mogul David King (Denzel Washington) faces personal and professional dilemmas in Spike Lee’s crime thriller “Highest 2 Lowest.”<\/p>\n
Denzel Washington<\/a> is canceling cancel culture.<\/p>\n While promoting “Highest 2 Lowest”<\/a> alongside Spike Lee<\/a>, the Hollywood icon was asked if he cared about cancel culture in a recent Complex News<\/a> interview with host Jillian Hardeman-Webb<\/a> \u2013 and he had a surprising answer.<\/p>\n “Do you guys consider being ‘canceled’?” the host asked before Washington replied, “What does that mean, being canceled?” She responded, “It means you lose public support.”<\/p>\n “Who cares? What made public support so important to begin with?” Washington said. Hardeman-Webb responded that it was “because followers now are currency.”<\/p>\n Washington wanted none of that, claiming, “I don’t care who’s following. You can’t lead and follow at the same time, and you can’t follow and lead at the same time.”<\/p>\n Cancel culture is defined by Merriam Webster as<\/a> “the practice or tendency of engaging in mass canceling as a way of expressing disapproval and exerting social pressure.” It typically affects celebrities and public figures during widespread backlash over controversies.<\/p>\n After adding that he only follows his faith, Washington later insisted that “you can’t be canceled if you haven’t signed up, don’t sign up.”<\/p>\n Another thing Washington doesn’t care about? The Academy Awards. The two-time Oscar winner \u2013 who boasts 10 total nominations \u2013 admitted to entertainment reporter Jake Hamilton<\/a> during a recent “Jake’s Takes” interview<\/a> that the sought-after trophies aren’t that important to him.<\/p>\n Denzel Washington on the Oscars: ‘I don’t care’<\/p>\n “I don’t do it for Oscars,” Denzel Washington said. “I really don’t care about that kind of stuff.”<\/p>\n Cover Media<\/p>\n “I don’t do it for Oscars,” Washington said. “I really don’t care about that kind of stuff. I’ve been at this a long time. There’s times when I won and shouldn’t have won, and shouldn’t have won and won … Man gives the award. God gives the reward.”<\/p>\n “I\u2019m not that interested in Oscars,” he continued. “You know, people will ask me, well, where do you keep it? I say, next to the other one. I’m not bragging. I’m just telling you how I feel about it. On my last day, it ain’t gon’ do me a bit of good.”<\/p>\n Washington won his first best supporting actor Oscar in 1990<\/a> for his role in “Glory”<\/a> and the 2002 best actor in a leading role award<\/a> for his performance in “Training Day.”<\/a> His latest nod came in the best actor category in 2022 for his portrayal of the title character in “The Tragedy of Macbeth.”<\/a><\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/85633761007-usatsi-19960195.jpg\"\/)
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