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You fall in love with the people in a town like that.' Or big giant lemons because it was so hot. 'The people were so beautiful, we were sitting around and they would just bring us coffee and espresso. 'When we went to that small town, we knew that was the place,' Fuqua said. The difference is McCall is more uniquely suited to take on the Camorra.

It's the kind of place you'd believe someone like McCall (or anyone really) might feel immediately tied to and protective of, which is what happens in 'Equalizer 3,' debuting in theatres nationwide Friday.

And on the Amalfi coast, they stumbled on the small village of their, and McCall's, fantasies in the picturesque Atrani. In Naples, they found an authentically 1970s New York grittiness that required little to no production design for a pivotal showdown. The information you need to know, sent directly to you: Download the CTV News AppĪnd for Fuqua, it was the stuff of filmmaking dreams to get to shoot in Cinecitta Studios in Rome and bump up against cinema history walking where Fellini and so many other greats have before him.Top entertainment headlines, all in one place.He loves the culture, the people, the food. Washington, Fuqua said, goes every summer and has since his kids were babies. Why not take this character around the world? Luckily, Sony loved the idea.'Īnd there was only one place that was ever seriously on the list: Italy.

'We thought it would be nice to see a man of color in a story that's more international.

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'Denzel is an international movie star,' Fuqua told The Associated Press. But after two films and US$382.7 million in box-office receipts in the past decade, the time seemed ripe to travel. The action franchise (very loosely based on a 1980s television series) starring Denzel Washington as the reluctant assassin Robert McCall had rooted itself in humble domestic beginnings, in Boston. Filmmaker Antoine Fuqua has been dreaming about taking the Equalizer abroad for years.

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