Katie Couric says she was “shaken” by an “uncomfortable” interview with Denzel Washington again in 2004.
Whereas on the “Every part Iconic with Danny Pellegrino” podcast this week, Couric, 63, recalled the awkward “Dateline” interview — which concerned Washington, as properly Meryl Streep, throughout a promotional run for his or her movie “The Manchurian Candidate” — after Pellegrino introduced up the artwork of celeb and political interviews.
“I simply keep in mind leaving it and considering, ‘God’ … I don’t assume I stated something mistaken … I don’t know what occurred. Anyway, I believe he will need to have been having a extremely unhealthy day, as a result of he later wrote a giant verify to my colon most cancers group, which I believed was tremendous candy.”
She continued, “I like him. I love him a lot, he’s one in all my favourite actors, however I keep in mind strolling out feeling form of shaken that he had gone after me in a manner that was fully weirdly uncalled for.”
The “Dateline” interview concerned Couric asking Washington, 65, if he agrees with the notion that, “Hollywood of us ought to stick with appearing.”
“I don’t know what Hollywood of us are, to start with,” he retorted. “Hollywood is a city that has some stars on the sidewalk. I don’t know anyone from there. So, I don’t — that’s like saying — calling you a ‘sort’ of oldsters. I’m not a Hollywood folks. I don’t know who they're.”
“OK, all proper, properly, let me rephrase the query,” she responded. “Are you a kind of those that —”
“Ah, there you go,” Washington interrupted. “Am I one in all these folks? Hmmm, isn’t that fascinating?”
“Oh, cease, cease, cease,” Couric replied, to which Washington answered, “No, don’t cease. I heard what you simply stated. ‘Am I a kind of folks?’ No, I’m not.”
Couric countered by telling the star, “No, are you an actor who would fairly not —”
“No, I’m not that both,” Washington added in response to being labeled an actor. “I’m a human being. My job is appearing.”
A rep for Washington instructed Web page Six the star has no remark.
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