NEW YORK (AP) — Denzel Washington, 62 years-old and a seven-time Oscar nominee, is still trying to get better. In Dan Gilroy's "Roman J. Israel, Esq.," Washington has challenged himself with one of his most complicated and singular roles. The title character (played by Washington) is a veteran activist attorney. After decades spent as a brilliant behind-the-scenes legal mind, the death of his more renowned partner brings Israel out into the open. For an actor whose most powerful performances ("Malcolm X," ''Glory," ''Training Day") have been monuments of power and strength, Israel is an oddity — a loping, rumpled, anti-social loner who Gilroy and Washington say has Asperger's Syndrome.
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By JAKE COYLE, AP Film Writer, Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Movies
Wed, 11/22/2017 - 4:57pm
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