'This is it: I'm doing this for the art, I love it, and if this is the way to go, at least I did it on a Christoper Nolan set,' John David Washington, 36, recalls thinking. 'I was scared.'
“I’ll be honest, I was really confident about my athletic abilities and I was extremely confident that I would get the job done, maybe even underestimating how tumultuous that path to mastering inverted techniques would be because of my football background. But I learned the hard way and I learned early, too,” says Washington, 36, laughing.
And because the film hinges on the concept of time inversion, Washington had to learn to say some of his lines backward and do fight scenes going forward and backward in time. Washington’s performance, as a 1970s cop infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan, won Nolan over when he saw the film at Cannes Film Festival and appreciated “the way he drew me into that story,” the director says. With “Tenet,” Nolan needed a powerful presence to carry the film and felt Washington’s athleticism did wonders: “The whole crew is there on set, watching this guy perform extraordinary things and just thinking, ‘Wow.’ Suddenly, he owns the movie.
While Hollywood is just getting around to restarting, Washington has been busy. He filmed a secret movie in quarantine, “Malcolm & Marie,” with “Euphoria” creator/director Sam Levinson and co-star Zendaya.
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