Whereas follower counts have been identified to help casting selections in right this moment’s Hollywood, Spike Lee is popping to the memes.
Forward of his A24 movie Highest 2 Lowest‘s Cannes premiere subsequent month, the Oscar winner revealed he solid A$AP Rocky within the function after seeing a meme evaluating the Grammy-nominated artist to his co-star Denzel Washington.
“What’s humorous is that I used to be Instagram 4 or 5 years in the past and folks have been saying that A$AP seemed like he’s Denzel’s son,” he recalled on the 7PM in Brooklyn podcast. “I seen these memes after which within the movie we used that.”
Rocky’s upcoming function alongside Washington and Ice Spice comes after he made his on-screen debut in 2015’s Dope and most not too long ago starred in A24’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.
“A$AP, man, he fireplace,” Lee praised him. “I imply, there’s some scenes the place him and D face to face – he ain’t backing up. Like, ‘I’m right here too.’ So very, very pleased with the way in which the movie turned out and searching ahead to sharing it with the world.”
Denzel Washington in ‘Highest 2 Lowest’ (A24)
A reinterpretation of Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 Japanese movie Excessive and Low, Lee’s newest directorial outing stars Washington as a titan music mogul, extensively referred to as having the “finest ears within the enterprise,” who’s focused with a life-or-death ransom plot.
Lee beforehand advised Deadline that Rocky performs “the main role” in his movie.
