When John David Washington was 11, he told his father, Denzel, that he would never consider acting as a career because “your shadow is so big”. “No,” John David replied. How about Michael Douglas, his father said. “Yes!” Washington Sr told his son to look up Kirk Douglas — and finally the penny dropped. Michael Douglas may have outgrown Kirk’s shadow, but John David didn’t even want to try to emulate his father, who, by the time his son…

Source: The Times December 30, 2018 00:11 UTC