Denzel Washington has officially entered his IDGAF era — and cancel culture didn’t even make it past the bouncer.
The 70-year-old Oscar legend was chilling with Complex News while hyping up his new Spike Lee movie Highest 2 Lowest, when someone asked him about cancel culture. Instead of dodging, Denzel basically dunked on the entire concept.
“What does that mean — to be canceled?” he asked, dead serious. After the interviewer explained, Denzel hit her with a casual shrug and said: “Who cares?”
Like, okay king???
He doubled down with the energy of someone who just turned off Twitter forever: “What made public support so important to begin with? Followers now are currency? I don’t care who’s following who. You can’t lead and follow at the same time. I don’t follow anybody. I follow God.”
Translation: man is running on divine WiFi, not TikTok clout.
He even dropped the mic harder: “You can’t be canceled if you haven’t signed up. Don’t sign up.” Bro is literally Neo from The Matrix dodging cancellation bullets.
Denzel laughed it off with Spike Lee, saying, “Don’t get me started. Chest is getting tight talking about it.” Spike was also in full “lol whatever” mode: “I could care less.”
And then Taraji P. Henson popped in like the hype woman of the year, reposting the clip on Instagram and screaming, “HE BETTER PREACH!!!! Humans don’t have that kind of power over my ordained life. #GODIS #MANAINTIT Have a blessed day.”
Oh, and in case anyone forgot, Denzel doesn’t even care about awards either. He literally said in another interview, “I don’t do it for Oscars. I really don’t care about that kind of stuff.”
So yeah, Hollywood might be playing Monopoly with followers and trophies, but Denzel is just out here sipping holy water and vibing.