Spike Lee Cast A$AP Rocky In New Film After Seeing IG Memes Comparing Him to Denzel Washington

Spike Lee Cast A$AP Rocky In New Film After Seeing IG Memes Comparing Him to Denzel Washington

Spike Lee is opening up about what inspired him to cast A$AP Rocky in his new film.

In a recent episode of the 7PM in Brooklyn podcast, the director revealed that Instagram comments comparing Rocky to a young Denzel Washington sparked the idea:

“What’s funny is that I was looking at Instagram four or five years ago and people were saying that A$AP looked like he’s Denzel’s son. Everyone was saying it. I seen those memes and then in the film, we used that.”

However, the casting wasn’t just about the resemblance. “A$AP, man, he fire,” Spike Lee said.

“I mean, there’s some scenes where him and D [go] head to head — he ain’t backing up. He’s like, ‘I’m here too.’”

Highest 2 Lowest is a reinterpretation of Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 film High and Low, and stars Denzel Washington, A$AP Rocky, Jeffrey Wright, Ilfenesh Hadera, Dean Winters, John Douglas Thompson, and Ice Spice.

Do you see the resemblance? Let us know in the comments!