
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."
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 87 | August 25, 2018 6:11 AM |
This story is old as hell OP.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | August 3, 2018 8:22 PM |
To penalize Denzel's racism Julia forced him to give her piggy-back rides on demand at unexpected times..
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 3 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 5 | August 3, 2018 8:30 PM |
He wanted to slap her instead. And really, who could blame him?
by Anonymous | reply 6 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 7 | August 3, 2018 8:45 PM |
R7 oh well if Ann Coulter wrote about it, it MUST be credible!
by Anonymous | reply 8 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 9 | August 3, 2018 9:00 PM |
^Talk about a blast from the past. WHET he and Noah Wylie?
by Anonymous | reply 10 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 11 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 12 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 13 | August 3, 2018 10:00 PM |
No bigger slut in Hollywood than Denzel. His list of mistresses is very long. Many of them white.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 15 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 17 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 18 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 19 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 20 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 21 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 22 | August 4, 2018 5:38 AM |
R20 Will she need to spit out a part of Beyonce to answer?
by Anonymous | reply 23 | August 4, 2018 5:39 AM |
I thought they had an affair?
by Anonymous | reply 24 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 25 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 26 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 27 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 28 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 29 | August 4, 2018 5:49 AM |
HOLD UP!
You’re telling me Julia fucked Durmott Mulroney AND Dylan McDermott?!?!
by Anonymous | reply 30 | August 4, 2018 5:55 AM |
Did Julia ever fuck Tom Hanks?
by Anonymous | reply 31 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 32 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 34 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 35 | August 4, 2018 6:02 AM |
Julia Roberts has good taste in men. She'd never fuck Tom Hanks. Gross.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 37 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 38 | August 4, 2018 6:22 AM |
She did NOT fuck Brad Pitt.
Interesting.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | August 4, 2018 6:28 AM |
R39 they're "best friends"
by Anonymous | reply 40 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 41 | August 4, 2018 6:33 AM |
Didn't Mark Ruffalo get a go too ?
by Anonymous | reply 42 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 43 | August 4, 2018 6:41 AM |
Julia did not sleep with Richard Gere, Pitt or Clooney. She likes men.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | August 4, 2018 6:48 AM |
Julia and Bruce Willis?? For real? Did they ever work together?
by Anonymous | reply 45 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 46 | August 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.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 47 | August 4, 2018 2:30 PM |
I much preferred this Washington-Roberts screen coupling.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 49 | August 4, 2018 2:36 PM |
I stopped reading at timeless beauty...puhlease.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | August 4, 2018 2:53 PM |
R47 you can lie to yourself but you’re not convincing anyone.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 52 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 54 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 55 | August 4, 2018 4:57 PM |
he didn't want to kiss a horse leave him alone!
by Anonymous | reply 56 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 57 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 58 | August 4, 2018 5:01 PM |
Denzel pulled out of Julia Roberts and sprayed all over her back.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | August 4, 2018 6:38 PM |
[Quote] Denzel pulled out of Julia Roberts and sprayed all over her back.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 60 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 61 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 62 | August 4, 2018 9:37 PM |
R62 Wesley Snipes in Wildcats?
by Anonymous | reply 63 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 64 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 65 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 66 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 67 | August 5, 2018 12:13 AM |
r63 no, maybe it was this guy from Major League. He kind of resembles Denzel.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 68 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 69 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 70 | August 5, 2018 12:35 AM |
Who’d wanna kiss that ugly woman? As ugly on the outside as the inside.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 74 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 75 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 76 | August 5, 2018 3:12 AM |
Julia also fucked Mel Gibson and Ethan Hawke.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | August 5, 2018 3:51 AM |
My God who didn't Julia fuck? She got all the good dick.
by Anonymous | reply 78 | August 5, 2018 3:52 AM |
R78 why do you think the ancient DL queens hate her so emphatically?
by Anonymous | reply 79 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 80 | August 5, 2018 3:58 AM |
He fucked her offscreen. EVERYONE knows that. What a hypocrite.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | August 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 Anonymous | reply 82 | August 5, 2018 4:16 AM |
R76 Puerto Rican’s come in all kinds of shades though
by Anonymous | reply 83 | August 5, 2018 6:09 AM |
That's rich. He won't kiss a superstar on screen but he fucks her offscreen. Ok.
by Anonymous | reply 84 | August 25, 2018 5:26 AM |
AIKC??? Be more vague please. So we make sure to not understand
by Anonymous | reply 86 | August 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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