Denzel Washington

• 2010: Denzel Washington told an interviewer a story about traveling with his mother on Donald Trump's personal jet. “For a guy who's just seen the end of the world, Denzel Washington is surprisingly upbeat. The actor projects a studied, scowling quiet for much of his new post-Armageddon thriller ‘The Book of Eli,’ which makes it a little jarring to meet the actor and find him in an altogether different mode: gregarious, charismatic, Denzel-ish. […] He indulges an overly excited stranger who stops by the table to gush about a house she once helped Washington's mother rent. And then he segues into a story about how his mother offered suggestions to Donald Trump on how to handle his business as Trump gave them a ride on his jet from Florida to New York. ‘You know how New York mothers are. She takes charge. I said 'Ma, it's his plane, be quiet,'’ he says, giving that trademark Denzel laugh.” (Los Angeles Times, January 14, 2010)