Whereas follower counts have been recognized to assist casting choices in as we speak’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 forged A$AP Rocky within the characteristic after seeing a meme evaluating the Grammy-nominated artist to his co-star Denzel Washington.
“What’s humorous is that I used to be taking a look at Instagram 4 or 5 years in the past and other people have been saying that A$AP appeared 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 lately 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 proud of 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 generally known as having the “greatest ears within the enterprise,” who’s focused with a life-or-death ransom plot.
Lee beforehand informed Deadline that Rocky performs “the primary function” in his movie.
