Denzel Washington is called a "prickly jerk" after a difficult interview.

It happens to the best of us..........
Ny Daily News:
Maybe he was having a bad day, but Denzel Washington comes off as prickly jerk in the new Elle. "The most innocuous questions are met with a cold stare," writes interviewer Lisa DePaulo. Washington was slightly more talkative at last week's premiere of "The Great Debaters," where his co-stars said he was cool on the set. "He could've easily come in and ruled with an iron fist," Jurnee Smollett told us. "But he never once did."