By the point Denzel Washington seemed reverse Julia Roberts in “The Pelican Transient,” he’d had a love scene between himself and a white lady lower from a movie — particularly, a scene with Mimi Rogers within the 1989 mystery “The Mighty Quinn.” In accordance to Newsweek, Washington made the verdict after a number of Black ladies booed the kiss at a screening.
Washington and Roberts will have shot love scenes for “The Pelican Transient,” or Washington may have already been so company in his stance that he had the scenes lower from the script ahead of filming. Alternatively, it kind of feels that there was once lingering confusion among the general public about whose thought it was once to take the scenes out.
In a 2002 Newsweek profile of Washington for which Roberts was once additionally interviewed, she stated that she’d been requested a lot of occasions why she did not need to kiss Washington in “The Pelican Transient.” She defined, “Do not I’ve a pulse? Of direction I sought after to kiss Denzel. It was once his thought to take the … scenes out.”
In the similar piece, Washington defined that he did not need to alienate his predominantly Black feminine fanbase through appearing a Black guy being intimate with a white lady reasonably than a Black lady. “Black ladies aren’t steadily noticed as gadgets of need on movie,” Washington stated. “They’ve at all times been my core target audience.”
