In 1970, Denzel Washington was a 16-year-old student at high school in Florida, with no possible idea that 50 years later he would be named by the New York Times as the greatest actor of the 21st century. In fact, acting wasn’t even something he’d particularly thought about pursuing; instead he was obsessing over basketball, considering becoming a doctor, and, thanks to the new friends he’d just made at the school he’d been sent to to get away …
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