Denzel Washington has opened up about working with ASAP Rocky on Spike Lee's new crime thriller Highest 2 Lowest, while also discussing being the rapper's doppelgänger.
On Friday (August 22), Rocky and Washington sat down with Lee for an 'Epic Conversations' chat with GQ, posted to YouTube.
Around the 3:30-minute mark in the video below, the director asked Rocky if there were times he was "intimidated" to shoot any scene with the two-time Academy Award winner.
"Hell no. I was just fanned out. I was just like, 'Man...'" Rocky replied.
After Lee urged him to explain what "fanned out" meant, the "Praise the Lord" rapper continued: "My whole life, like, my mother gassed me up and told me I look like this man."
"If you had a penny [for] anytime they said you look like Denzel?" Lee asked, to which Rocky joked: "I'd be a trillionaire right now."
"I swear to God, no bullshit," Rocky told Washington.
"So mom, should we tell him?" Washington joked while facing the camera.
The moment led Lee to recall a scene from Highest 2 Lowest, where Washington's character, David King, made the "implication" that Rocky's Yung Felon might be his son.
Lee and Washington recently spoke about the resemblance between Washington and Rocky in an exclusive interview with Complex's Jillian Superstar.
"For five years people have been saying that ASAP Rocky resembles Denzel," Lee said.
"I didn't see it, no, no," Washington added. "Ain't nobody said it to me."
Both Washington and Lee agreed that Rocky "delivered" in his "pivotal role" as Yung Felon, and throughout the promotional tour, the legendary duo have said nothing but glowing words about the Harlem native.
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