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With the release of High and Low, Denzel Washington can finally end his nearly two-decade-long career drought. The film, a remake of the 1963 Japanese classic of the same name, is directed by Spike Lee and began production in March 2024.
Following his initial breakthrough in the 1980s with a prominent part in the popular hospital drama St. Elsewhere, Washington established himself as a legitimate cinema star in films like Mississippi Masala and The Mighty Quinn. Since then, he has gained much of his notoriety as a performer in feature films, receiving ten Academy Award Academy Award nominations and winning two.
High And Low marks Denzel Washington & Spike Lee’s first collaboration since Inside Man
With the release of High and Low, Denzel Washington and Spike Lee will work together for the first time in eighteen years since Inside Man (2006). Before then, the pair was well-known for their regular collaborations, having initially partnered on the romance drama Mo’ Better Blues in 1990. After his tenure as Dr. Philip Chandler on St. Elsewhere concluded in 1988 after 137 episodes, that movie was among the first to star Washington. He then frequently worked with Lee on projects like Malcolm X (1992) and He Got Game (1998).
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