Movies like Ridley Scott’s American Gangster, his highest grossing domestic film to date, or Book of Eli, don’t exactly have obvious ways to make sequels work.
Which may explain why the actor tells Variety he just doesn’t get asked to make sequels.
Even before we lived in the world of cinematic universes Hollywood loved a good sequel and everybody loves Denzel Washington so it seems odd that these two things have never come together before.
However, if you look at Washington’s biggest hit films, the ones where you would expect sequels to be considered, you notice that making a sequel story work would be difficult.