The iconic 1998 role Denzel Washington was priced out of playing

The iconic 1998 role Denzel Washington was priced out of playing

As one of modern cinema’s rarest double threats, being one of its finest actors and biggest movie stars, Denzel Washington doesn’t come cheap, and he hasn’t for a long time. Since earning his first $10million paycheque for 1996’s Courage Under Fire, by which point he was already an Academy Award winner and an A-lister, Washington has very rarely removed himself from the eight-figure club, and his usual asking price is at least double. The man kn…