The episode hit close to home for Kittles, who shares that having a Black writer and a Black director (in Solvan Naim) created a safe space for him to perform. My initial reaction was, ‘There’s no way in hell they’re going to let us do this.’ But after everyone heard Joe’s pitch and said yes, he wrote this incredible, multi-dimensional script, and I was as terrified as I was excited.” Joe called me after last season and said he had an idea. “Dante is very complex and we got to dig into that in this episode. “One of the best things about being an actor is you get to deal with real-life experiences without suffering the consequences,” Kittles observes. Tory Kittles, who plays Dante on The Equalizer, hopes the special-issue episode will drum up discourse and compassion.
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It allowed us to really show who Dante is, what makes him tick, and the journey that he’s on - but also bring awareness to the fact that this is something that is not over.” “All of these things are what we deal with as Black people in America everyday, and I wanted to combine those cases. “The goal was to open up Dante’s character in the shadow of George Floyd’s death and the Caron Nazario case, the Army officer who police pepper-sprayed at a gas station,” Wilson tells TVLine. Wilson, one of the CBS drama’s co-executive producers and writers, penned the installment and says Dante’s position as a Black cop created the perfect opportunity to unpack a very difficult narrative. As fans know, Robyn wasn’t going to allow that, and with a lot legwork, she eventually came to his aid. When the other officer, Deputy Morales, pulled out Dante’s wallet and discovered he was an NYPD detective, the two panicked and Barnes decided they would have to hide Dante and eventually kill him to cover up their mistake. The Equalizer Recap: Robyn and a Former CIA Colleague Set It Off to Avenge a Tulsa Race Massacre Survivor The Equalizer's Liza Lapira Previews Anti-Asian Hate Episode: 'I Was Able to Give Voice to Real People' Before he could tell them who he was or show his badge, lead officer Deputy Barnes tased Dante and hit him in the head with a collapsible baton, knocking him unconscious. Dante knew his rights and wouldn’t let them unlawfully search his car. Unfortunately for Dante, this contradiction of sorts came to bear when he stopped for gas in Upstate New York and two officers pulled up and started asking him questions because there had been a robbery in the area. Or, as his ex-wife explained to Robyn on the March 20 installment titled “D.W.B” (aka Driving While Black), “You get judged from the outside, while trying to solve the problem from inside.” Because Dante is a Black man and a Black cop, he struggled to explain the dichotomy between his personhood and his profession. The second reason, though, proved a lot more complicated.
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Maybe they'll be remembered again when McCall returns for a sequel, which this film is obviously quite determined to set up.The Equalizer‘s Detective Marcus Dante had put off talking to his sons about how to handle themselves when dealing with the police, for two reasons.įor starters, he wanted to maintain the innocent way the two boys viewed the world.
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Instead, he just takes a quick trip to a country house.Īs McCall returns refreshed to singlehandedly overturn an oligopoly, a film that had started by engaging with issues of ageing and loss has forgotten such petty concerns entirely. He's so convincing at being tougher than everyone else that we never get that end-of-the-second-act moment where it looks as if everything is lost. But Denzel's strength is also his weakness. Denzel is so cool, so made of pure nails he can make even the most preposterous action scene feel thrilling. Secondly, there's the even older chestnut of how the audience suspends disbelief as the toughest (and most tooled-up) killers east of the Danube get laced by a man who can remember the moon landings.įortunately for Fuqua, this ain't just any old 59-year-old. Firstly, there's the desensitisation-to-violence chestnut as Teddy (a just about convincing Marton Csokas) starts popping people with ever more lurid brutality.
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There are two problems with this turn of events. Soon enough dozens of people are being blown up, shot dead and having their testicles shoved in their mouths. The organisation is headed by a man called Pushkin who sends his enforcer, Teddy, to tie things up. The pimps are, naturally, the lowest orders of a massive Russian crime syndicate who trade in everything from people to oil. Then McCall heads to a well-appointed private bar and takes out Lena's assailants in all of 28 seconds, putting a corkscrew to effective use in the process, and things go entirely to pot.