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Now, here's this week's episode of the interview.

From the New York Times, this is the interview.

I'm David Marquesie.

So many of Denzel Washington's greatest performances have been defined by a riveting sense of authority,

an absence of any pandering or need to be liked. There's something deep down inside his characters

that feels unassailable, a little enigmatic, and theirs alone.

The same steely qualities that have helped Washington become a legend, also, as I learned firsthand,

make for an unusual and unusually complicated conversationalist.

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