The first time Denzel Washington read the "Training Day" script, he had an intensely personal reaction to his character — the charismatic, but fatally corrupt, detective Alonzo Harris.

“I try to bend even the worst of my roles, like Training Day, ” said Washington, the day after a press screening of The Book of Eli in Los Angeles. “The first thing I wrote on my script was ‘the wages of sin is death.’ - Terry Mattingly, The Book of Denzel.