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" Denzel Washington has revealed what movie roles he regrets turning down. The Hollywood actor has appeared in numerous films throughout his long career, including his Oscar-winning performances in Glory and Training Day, but admitted that Se7en (1995) and Michael Clayton (2007) are the roles that got away. &amp;quot;With Clayton, it was the best material I had read in a long time, but I was nervous about a first-time director, and I was wrong. It happens,&amp;quot; he told GQ. Directed by Tony Gilroy, Michael Clayton follows a &amp;quot;fixer&amp;quot; who is brought in by a law firm to help fix a situation after one of their lawyers has a breakdown, starring George Clooney, Tilda Swinton and Tom Wilkinson. Se7en starred Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman as two detective partners hunting down a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his way of murdering people.      Washington also talked about the movie roles he wanted that he didn&amp;#039;t get, in Oliver Stone&amp;#039;s 1986 Platoon and Stanley Kubrick&amp;#039;s 1987 Full Metal Jacket. &amp;quot;They were like, &amp;#039;Well, [Kubrick] doesn&amp;#039;t send out his scripts&amp;#039;,&amp;quot; he shared. &amp;quot;I was like, &amp;#039;Well, then what do you want me to do?&amp;#039; Platoon, I wanted to play the part Willem Dafoe played.&amp;quot; Washington previously starred in Safe House and has also lined up roles in Flight and 2 Guns. In the same interview, Washington opened up about his friendship with the late Whitney Houston, calling her death an &amp;quot;example&amp;quot; to him and others. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s more of an example to me - or the rest of us - to keep it together,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;I was listening to her song &amp;#039;I Look to You&amp;#039;. It&amp;#039;s prophetic.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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