The American actor came out of his hinges and got angry with a photographer just before receiving his golden palm of honor at the Cannes Film Festival.
On the red carpet of the Cannes festival, frozen smiles, hugs and extravagant outfits are essential. This is why a scene particularly surprised the observers during the climb of the steps of May 19, 2025. Denzel Washington made his return to the Croisette after a long absence to present Highest 2 Lowestnew feature film by Spike Lee presented Hors-Competition. The actor even received a palm of gold of honor by surprise, rewarding his whole career just before the screening of the film.
But that’s not all. Just before scrolling with the rest of the film of the film on the red carpet, Denzel Washington was seen in the process of taking one of the photographers. It must be said that a few moments earlier, the American actor had praised fans, refusing autographs or selfies. However, he hugged the hands of all the spectators present behind the barriers to acclaim it, an obvious sign that he did not necessarily want to be photographed or disturbed during this moment.
We could see Denzel Washington annoyed several times against a photographer who typed on his shoulder before trying to grab her arm on the red carpet. On the images and according to the Daily Mail, the actor of MALCOM X Repeat “stops” stops the photographer several times, but also “stop, I am serious, no longer put your hands on months”, or even “I’m talking to you, stop now”.
The photographer does not seem to have dismantled himself and continued to ostensibly smile, as if he had not entered the star of the star well, which did not manage to calm the movie star. We even saw the actor doubly ossarized pointing his finger on the photographer, however hilarious. Despite this incident, the agents of Denzel Washington assured people magazine that it was “a good evening”.
Still remains a funny scene to which festival -goers are not used to. But this is not the first of this edition: an bee came to break up the facade smiles of Emma Stone, Pedro Pascal and Austin Butler on Friday evening, while a dress accident between Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson was narrowly avoided. The red carpet is normally the place where the stars comply with the requests of the photographers who scream their names during the climb of the steps. But obviously not the big Denzel Washington, who this time proved that a star is also entitled to set its limits, and that they must be respected.