Or as Jackson put it on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, he’s known John David Washington since “before he could even shave.”
Meanwhile, Samuel L. Jackson has a long history with Denzel Washington.
It’s totally like an embarrassing uncle moment, except in this case Washington’s getting it from an a-list actor whom people revere.
The two appeared in Mo Better Blues together in 1990 and have known each other professionally throughout their careers, also hanging out as pals early on when they both lived in NYC.