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A$AP Rocky, Movie Star: The Rapper on Method Acting With Denzel Washington, Planning a Film With Rihanna and Being ‘Blessed to Work’ After Assault Trial


A$AP Rocky stars opposite Denzel Washington in Spike Lee's "Highest 2 Lowest." Ahead of Cannes, the rapper tells all about his pivot to acting.

The armchair I’m perched on is made of stuffed Mickey Mouse toys, a “Tom and Jerry” cartoon is playing on mute in the background and Jefferson Airplane’s psychedelic music is blaring from the stereo. The jacket has a Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, license plate emblazoned on the front; that’s where the Harlem-born Rakim Mayers lived for a stint as a kid, beginning right around the time he started rapping at age 8. But we’re here to talk about Rocky’s Cannes-bound film “Highest 2 Lowest,” Spike Lee’s remake of the Akira Kurosawa crime drama “High and Low” that will see him face off against Denzel Washington.

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