While follower counts have been identified to help casting choices in right now’s Hollywood, Spike Lee is popping to the memes.
Ahead of his A24 movie Highest 2 Lowest‘s Cannes premiere subsequent month, the Oscar winner revealed he solid A$AP Rocky within the function after seeing a meme evaluating the Grammy-nominated artist to his co-star Denzel Washington.
“What’s funny is that I was looking at Instagram four or five years ago and people were saying that A$AP looked like he’s Denzel’s son,” he recalled on the 7PM in Brooklyn podcast. “I seen those memes and then in the film we used that.”
Rocky’s upcoming position alongside Washington and Ice Spice comes after he made his on-screen debut in 2015’s Dope and most just lately starred in A24’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.
“A$AP, man, he fire,” Lee praised him. “I mean, there’s some scenes where him and D head to head – he ain’t backing up. Like, ‘I’m here too.’ So very, very happy with the way the film turned out and looking forward to sharing it with the world.”
Denzel Washington in ‘Highest 2 Lowest’ (A24)
A reinterpretation of Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 Japanese movie High and Low, Lee’s newest directorial outing stars Washington as a titan music mogul, extensively often called having the “best ears in the business,” who’s focused with a life-or-death ransom plot.
Lee beforehand advised Deadline that Rocky performs “the main role” in his movie.