I mean, he did alright. I was mostly onboard with it just because at that specific time, their reasoning of "We just couldn't find a white actor who had the physically imposing look we needed for Kingpin" authentically made sense. Whereas nowadays when they say something like that it just comes off like lip service. But there really weren't any other "name" actors in Hollywood at that time who could have done the role so they actually were kind of stuck. He probably was the objectively best choice they had to work with. Usually when they say that, they're lying.
Like, him and Fishburne prove that it can still come off well, BUT 99.9% of the time they do this for Outrage Clicks and to get people talking. Cheap heat. And that's annoying.
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