The Untold Story of Denzel Washington and Lenny Kravitz’s Bromance — from Yearly New Years Celebrations to a Failed Nightclub

Lenny Kravitz is the most recent identify to be engraved on the Hollywood Stroll of Fame. The four-time Grammy winner acquired his star on March 12, with daughter Zoë Kravitz there to help him. Zoë took the chance to playfully roast her dad through the unveiling ceremony, joking in her tribute speech about his see-through shirts: “In accordance with my dad, if it doesn’t expose your nipples, it’s not a shirt.”

However extra notably, Denzel Washington was proper by Lenny’s facet, rocking his signature tracksuit. In a speech to honor Kravitz’s accomplishment, Washington ribbed the “Can’t Get You Off My Thoughts” singer about their blossoming bromance that left the viewers erupting in laughter.

The bromance between the Oscar-winning actor and the often-shirtless rocker has fascinated followers, and it seems, dates again greater than 30 years, in line with Washington. Clearly, their bond is getting old like a fantastic wine and simply getting stronger by means of the years. Right here’s a glance again on their finest BFF moments.

2002

All the best way again in October 2002, the “If I May Fall in Love” singer offered Washington with a “Finest Drama Actor” award at GQ’s “Males of the 12 months Awards” ceremony, the place they have been each all smiles, suited up, and looking out dapper.

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2003

Roughly a decade into their friendship, Washington and Kravitz have been only a few of the Hollywood elite noticed backstage with Tommy Hilfiger on the Mercedes-Benz Style Week exhibiting of the designer’s males’s and ladies’s spring 2004 assortment.

2004

Not solely have the duo attended award ceremonies collectively, however additionally they as soon as made plans to bankroll a nightclub referred to as Kos in Manhattan’s Bowery. In accordance with The New York Submit, the pair traveled to Florida collectively searching for design inspiration. Nonetheless, they reportedly bumped into monetary roadblocks earlier than the launch.

2007

In an interview with Readers’ Digest, Washington admits that he has all of Kravitz’s music on his iPod: “A buddy — to not name-drop — is Lenny Kravitz. I’ve all his stuff.”

2014

The rocker carried out his hit tune “Strut” on the “Late Present with David Letterman” earlier than becoming a member of Washington at Letterman’s desk for a candid interview. The 2 shared particulars about jetting off to Italy for a ship journey trip across the Amalfi Coast. “That is my brother; I like this man,” gushed Kravitz as he gestured towards a smiling Washington.

Seems, as an alternative of partaking within the nightclub and restaurant scene, they binge-watched all of Washington’s films.

“Denzel by no means watches his films. He makes his films, and he’s executed. … I sat on that boat … and we watched all of them: ‘John Q,’ ‘Man on Fireplace,’ ‘Malcolm X,’” admitted Kravitz.

“I used to be good too,” stated Washington, seemingly stunned.

2015-2016

The longtime bros are ceaselessly noticed out and about in Los Angeles, eating at their favourite eating places and attending business occasions. Once they arrived collectively to have fun the birthday of the legendary actor Sidney Poitier, followers couldn’t assist however discover Washington was the designated driver and sporting his signature tracksuit.

In November 2016, Kravitz even had Washington “rolling by means of the hood.”

2018

When Denzel’s oldest son, John David Washington, turned in a Golden Globe-nominated efficiency as a Black police detective in Spike Lee’s 2018 movie “BlacKKKlansman,” Zoë was proper there with help.

“Yearly that I see him, he’s increasingly more snug with himself and he’s simply excited for what’s to come back . …  He’s simply blossomed, truthfully, within the final 5 years,” she informed Esquire.

She additionally shared within the “Esquire” interview that their two households vacationed collectively each New 12 months’s Eve, and the 2 well-known offspring had been buddies for years.

2019

When Zoë Kravitz received engaged to her now ex-husband, actor Karl Glusman, all of her closest household and buddies attended the ceremony, and naturally, that included Denzel Washington and household, who have been additionally visitors on the glamourous rehearsal dinner in Paris.

2020

Ever the nice buddy, Lenny Kravitz made certain to investigate cross-check Washington through the pandemic, sweetly referring to him as his “large brother” in an interview with “C” Journal.

Kravitz usually says he and Jason Momoa are “bros for all times” — they each have the identical ex-wife, in spite of everything! However the true lifelong bromance — a friendship that has endured for many years — is with Washington, and we’re right here for it.