3. Denzel Washington as Frank Lucas – American Gangster
During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Frank Lucas was one of the most notorious heroin kingpins in Harlem, Manhattan and a truly feared gangster. He pioneered a new effort to triple his money, by cutting out the middleman and buying his drugs direct from SouthEast Asia. Lucas claimed the incident that turned him to a life of crime occurred when his 12-year-old cousin was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan for looking at a white woman.
As seen in the movie American Gangster, Lucas smuggles the shipments of heroin into the country by using the coffins of dead soldiers. In 2000, he told New York magazine, “Who the hell is gonna look in a dead soldier’s coffin? We had him make up 28 copies of the government coffins – except we fixed them up with false bottoms, big enough to load up with six, maybe eight kilos. It had to be snug. You couldn’t have s**t sliding around”. SEE ALSO: 10 Popular celebrities who are boring in bed (With Pictures)
It would be quite the hard task to imagine any other actor in this role other than Denzel Washingtonas Frank Lucas. Uncaring of what devastation class-A narcotics can do a community, he acknowledges everything as solely business. It is a hard task to be likable as a character who flooded the streets with heroin, killed hundreds of people and destroyed communities – but Washington is an actor who never shies from a real challenge.
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