Denzel Washington has been in the film business for decades now, has anchored multiple iconic features, and become a regular fixture at the Academy Awards.
However, in his years and years as a movie star, the only character Washington has played more than once is Robert McCall, the protagonist of The Equalizer movies.
Most of Washington’s films are dramas and action/thrillers meant to function as just one-offs — there were never plans for a multitude of John Q.
or Flight installments.
However, The Equalizer was based on a popular TV show from the 1980s, and going on for serialized adventures was ingrained into the DNA of this property.
No wonder, then, that Washington has played McCall now on three separate occasions.
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