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TIL while touring The Magnificent 7 Denzel Washington was pressured by a writer for political quotes. Denzel said “You’re in the fortunate position of being able to research and take your time. But with clickbait it doesn’t even need to be true. It just has to be first.” Nothing political was said.

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