Next year marks the 20th anniversary for the release of director Tony Scott’s action masterpiece Man on Fire. The film that teamed a young Dakota Fanning alongside the ever amazing Denzel Washington, it was a pairing for the ages. Both Fanning and Washington might agree with that statement themselves, as they’ve kept up a decades-long friendship after making that film thanks to some family ties.
As the world readies itself for this reunion through The Equalizer 3, Fanning spoke with ET about how she’s kept in touch her former scene partner for so long. The connection has been maintained because of Dakota Fanning being a friend of the family, which she described through the following terms:
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