Denzel Washington, the renowned actor, recently attributed a near-tongue-severing incident to God's will. While preparing for his role as Othello on Broadway, Washington revealed that his swollen tongue made it challenging to deliver his lines. He spoke candidly about his faith and how this incident served as a reflection on his relationship with God. Washington also shared a prophecy from his youth, stating that he would travel the world and speak to millions.
Denzel Washington credits his faith in God for a recent accident not being worse than it was. The Training Day star, 70, revealed that he almost bit his tongue off recently, and it's affecting his work. The Oscar winner is preparing to play Othello on Broadway opposite Jake Gyllenhaal and shared that his tongue is still swollen, making it difficult to enunciate some of his lines.
\'I have a line: 'Whither will you that I go to answer this your charge?' It's hard because my tongue is swollen,' he told the New York Times. 'It has affected everything.' This incident also prompted the Gladiator II star to reflect on his relationship with God. 'That's why you pray every day,' he explained. 'I'm like, 'OK, Lord, I'm here, I think this is what you wanted me to do.' Now I'm not sure why, but one can say coincidence and serendipity and all those things.' Washington didn't elaborate on how he injured his tongue or if he received any medical treatment for it. \When asked if he believed acting as a profession helps people, Washington again steered the conversation towards God. 'At this point, everything I'm doing is through the lens of what God thinks, not what they think. I don't know what they think,' he said. 'You go down that hole, you'll never come out of that. When people say, 'What do you want people to get from this movie?' or 'What do you want them to get from this play?' I always say, 'It depends upon what they bring to it.' There's some interesting themes of jealousy and envy and pain and death. He added: 'And Kenny, the brilliant director, he's putting it in what he calls the near future. So all of those things – jealousy, envy – it takes on a whole new thing with the information age.' The actor also spoke about a prophecy about him. 'It was prophesied in my youth that I would travel the world and preach or speak to millions of people,' he said. 'I used to think that I was doing that through my work. Now I'm trying to be a bit more specific, speaking about my faith.' He said it started in 1975 when he had flunked out of college and was unsure what to do with his life. 'Well, a woman was sitting in my mother's beauty shop in March 1975,' he began. 'The reason I was in there was I had flunked out of college – I was told to take a semester off to think about what I wanted to do. 'And every time I looked up, I saw this woman looking at me, and she said she was having a prophecy,' Washington explained. 'She didn't say anything about me being an actor, but I have traveled the world, and I am speaking more and more.' Since re-finding his faith last year, Washington was baptized in December, just ahead of his 70th birthday. The Mount Vernon, New York-born actor was supported by his wife of more than four decades, Pauletta Washington, 74, at his baptism. After his baptism, Washington said, 'It took a while, but I'm finally here, if can do this for me, there's nothing He can't do for you - the sky literally is the limit.
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