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Always in the crosshairs
Academy Award winning actor Denzel Washington makes his surprise third appearance as former Special Ops assassin Robert McCall in director Antoine Fuqua’s conclusion to action franchise trilogy, “The Equalizer 3,” now in theaters.
Gillespie Life
BY MATT WARD, on September 6, 2023
Always in the crosshairs

The odds of a classically trained actor like Denzel Washington making a sequel, let alone a franchise, were so low that it was stunning to see him appear on the big screen more than once as 1980s television character Robert McCall from “The Equalizer.”

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