There Was A Cocaine Bust On The Set Of Denzel Washington’s New Film “The Equalizer 3”
I love it when actors refuse to turn down checks for franchises people have clearly forgotten about, so the fact that Denzel Washington is still running around on sets at the expense of elongated Epsom salt baths during his downtime is commendable. Denzel is currently in Italy, reprising his role from The Equalizer in its upcoming third installment, but it seems like the real action is taking place behind the scenes. Because after the suspicious death of the head of catering, local authorities began wondering if the Italian wedding cookies on set were being sprinkled with powdered sugar or BOOGER sugar. And unfortunately for the catering company, the latter was the more accurate representation.
According to Variety, Italian paramilitary police began to suspect something in the sugar wasn’t clean after the set’s head caterer collapsed and died upon leaving a local pub. My initial thought would have been he died from the boredom of watching Denzel try to relive his long-gone action-hero glory, but after searching his clothing, they discovered packets of white powder. Once they realized it wasn’t leftover Pixie Stix from a successful night of Halloween fun, they decided to dig a little deeper and raid the hotel rooms of his fellow catering staff members.
Italian newspaper Il Giornale reported that Carabinieri cops broke into hotel rooms in the seaside resort of Maiori used by the “Equalizer 3” caterers after the head of the film’s catering service suddenly died of a heart attack on Monday evening. Several small packages of cocaine were subsequently found in the man’s clothing, raising suspicions that there could be more drugs on the production’s premises.
The police search yielded 120 grams of cocaine and led to two other members of the film’s catering vendor being placed under house arrest in the hotel on alleged drug dealing charges. A third employee of the catering company was found in possession of a small amount of cocaine and had his drivers’ license pulled.
Of course, Denzel wasn’t accused of any suspicious activity because, as mentioned earlier, Epsom salt baths. Who has the time to party like Lindsay Lohan during a wild night at her former beach club when you have to pretend to be an action hero for twelve hours a day? And as far as the Equalizer production team, they have yet to release a statement about the entire incident. This is a sad story all around for multiple reasons. But mainly because the cast and crew now have to provide their own bag lunches and snacks since the caterers fucked up craft services for everyone with their greedy need to ride a white pony by the sea.
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