Denzel Washington has seen an excessive amount of Oscar drama for the 2025 nominations to faze him.

The star has reacted to the Academy snubbing him within the Greatest Supporting Actor class for Gladiator II in a brand new interview with The New York Times. "I used to be sitting there smiling [on nomination morning], going: 'Take a look at you. On the day you didn't get a nomination for an Oscar, you're engaged on Othello on Broadway,'" Washington recalled.

"Are you kidding me? Awww. Oh, I'm so upset," he added sarcastically.

The actor elaborated. "I'm completely happy for all that did, and I'm pleased with what I'm doing," he stated. "Hear, I've been round too lengthy. I've obtained — I don't wanna say different fish to fry, however there's a actuality at this age. Going again to what I used to be saying: The start of knowledge is knowing. I'm getting wiser, engaged on speaking much less and studying to grasp extra — and that's thrilling."

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Washington's efficiency in Ridley Scott's sequel earned rave opinions and nominations for Greatest Supporting Actor on the Golden Globes and the Critics Alternative Awards, however it didn't rating any love from the Academy, which as an alternative nominated Yura Borisov (Anora), Kieran Culkin (A Actual Ache), Edward Norton (A Full Unknown), Man Pearce (The Brutalist), and Jeremy Robust (The Apprentice). Gladiator II earned a sole nomination for Greatest Costume Design.

Washington has gotten his justifiable share of Oscars love previously: He received Greatest Supporting Actor in 1988 for Glory and Greatest Actor in 2002 for Training Day. He obtained six further Greatest Actor nominations for Malcolm X, The Hurricane, Flight, Fences, The Tragedy of Macbeth, and Roman J. Israel, Esq., in addition to one other Supporting Actor nod for Cry Freedom and a Greatest Image nom for Fences.

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Elsewhere within the interview, the Equalizer star mirrored on his dynamic with Jake Gyllenhaal, who's taking part in the Iago to Washington's Othello on stage. "He's an advanced man," he stated, earlier than clarifying, "In a great way."

Washington continued, "He's loopy. He's nuts. I really like him. He's difficult. However he's already obtained a deal with on it."

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The actor additionally famous that Gyllenhaal's preparation fashion differs from his personal. "I might see how far forward persons are [in preparing]," he defined. "Me, I'm not anxious about that, as a result of I don't prefer to be taught the traces too quickly. I used to be telling a younger actor who requested, 'Why don't you prefer to be taught them too quickly?' I stated: 'As a result of then I'm the voice I'm listening to delivering the cues to myself. I need to hear it from you, and that's going to have an effect on how I say what I say.' For me, that works."

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Washington additionally admitted that he has the benefit of getting carried out the piece early in his profession. "To be fairly sincere, as a result of I've performed it earlier than, I nonetheless kinda keep in mind it," he stated. "However it's not word-for-word."

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