Denzel Washington is not often moved to tears, but he was during Aiyana-Lee’s performance in a scene from Highest 2 Lowest. It appears that Denzel getting emotionally shaken up wasn’t part of Spike Lee’s script either, which the Brooklyn-bred director revealed in an interview with Variety on Tuesday (Nov. 25).

Lee detailed how he heard singer Aiyana-Lee’s “My Idols Lied to Me,” and ended up casting her in the film. Denzel plays a record exec named King and Aiyana-Lee portrays a singer trying to make it named Sula.

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