Denzel Washington wanted to ‘protect’ Whitney Houston on set of ‘The Preacher’s Wife’
Denzel Washington wanted to “protect” Whitney Houston when he worked with her on ‘The Preacher’s Wife’. The ‘Man on Fire’ actor, 69, starred as Dudley alongside the tragic singer in the Oscar-nominated 1996 film, in which Whitney played Julia Biggs – 16 years before she died aged 48 from accidental drowning, with contributing factors of heart disease and cocaine use. Nearly three decades after the movie came out, Denzel said at his African Black Film Festival retrospective about feeling protective towards the ‘I Will Always Love You’ performer: “I felt like I always wanted to protect her.” The...