Denzel Washington is back for another round of vigilante justice in The Equalizer 2.
This time, instead of working in a hardware store like he did in 2014’s The Equalizer, Washington’s character Robert McCall, is now a lethal Lyft driver.
The trailer shows McCall picking up rides, kicking butt, and demanding the bad guys give him a good rating.
“You make sure I get a five-star rating,” McCall says before breaking one guy’s fingers.
But has the Oscar-winning actor, 63, ever used Lyft in real life? Um. That would be a “no.”
“I’ve never taken Lyft,” Washington told The Hollywood Reporter Tuesday night at the The Equalizer 2 premiere in Los Angeles.
“I got my own car. I drive myself,” he explained. “I don’t drink so I don’t need a ride home.”
Maybe it’s a generational thing, because his co-star Ashton Sanders, 22, said he uses ride share apps all the time.
“I take Uber every day, not Lyft. Uber is my main source of transportation at the moment,” said Sanders, who you probably remember as Chiron in the Oscar-winning film Moonlight.
In The Equalizer 2, McCall uses his deadly skills to avenge the death of a close friend and former colleague.
Pedro Pascal (Narcos), Bill Pullman (A League of Their Own), and Melissa Leo (Treme) co-star in the action thriller from director Antoine Fuqua.
The new film marks the latest collaboration between Washington and Fuqua after Training Day (2001), The Equalizer (2014), and The Magnificent Seven (2016). This is the first time Washington has taken a role in a sequel to one of his films.
Sony Pictures expressed interest in an Equalizer sequel before the first film was even released. The big question was if Washington was on board for a follow-up film. We now know, the answer was “yes.”
The Equalizer 2 pulls into theaters on Friday, July 20.
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