“We had some laughs.
Do you remember the day the Monte Carlo got stolen?”
One day while filming, the vehicle vanished from set.
Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke in ‘Training Day’.Outlaw/Warner Bros/Kobal/Shutterstock
“Those guys down there said, ‘Don’t worry about it.
We got it.’
It was back in the exact same spot they stole it from, too.”
“They were really excited about it.”
Fuqua remembered how real gang members would sometimes “flow in” to the set.
“We weren’t going to say, ‘Get out the frame!’…
They all wanted to be a part of it.”
Watch the full TIFF Rewind panel onTraining Dayin the video above.
