Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe are on the cover of this week’s Entertainment Weekly magazine. They sat down for a 2-1 interview, taking the magazine’s questions and bouncing stories and thoughts off of each other. It was a good interview, but the stuff I enjoyed had very little to do with the movie itself.

Stuff like..

Playing Superheros

DENZEL WASHINGTON: I’ll play a superhero. If there were a good one to play, I’m not against playing a superhero. First of all, I haven’t been offered…[To Crowe] Have you been offered any superheroes?

RUSSELL CROWE: [Smiling] A couple.

WASHINGTON: Ha! ‘‘A couple.’’ See, I haven’t gotten that. I can’t be Superman.

CROWE: But let’s go through this: What do you get with a superhero role? You get a spandex costume and every now and then a cape.

WASHINGTON: It’s not a good look.

CROWE: [Shrugs] We’re not in the cape club. What can you do?

Training Day 2 ?! Uh, No Thanks

DENZEL WASHINGTON: The way Training Day was originally written, you heard about it on the news. And I told Antoine [Fuqua], ‘‘No, he’s got to get blasted. In order to justify him living in the worst way, Alonzo has to die in the worst way.’’ The studio was like, ‘‘Oh, maybe he survives - ‘’ I’m like, ‘‘Get out of here! Don’t start Training Day 2. We’ve got to kill that guy.’‘

Scarface

DENZEL WASHINGTON: Scarface gets more credit than it’s worth. Scarface didn’t change people. People were already living that. Scarface was just a good movie.

Beating Martin Scorcese at His Own Game

RUSSELL CROWE: I reckon Martin Scorsese is sitting somewhere in an office in New York and he sees ‘‘American Gangster’’ and he’s like, ‘‘F—-! And I went with Casino?’’ [Laughs]

The Spit on the Lip Story (This is disgusting)

RUSSELL CROWE: We met on one of those big-ass stages at Paramount. We had to do a scene where there’s a piece of cyclone wire fencing between us. I had to be really rabid and weird, and on the first take, I’m working myself up and a bit of spit comes out of my mouth -

DENZEL WASHINGTON: [Laughing] Oh, right, I remember that!

CROWE: - and it weaves itself neatly through the fencing and lands right on Denzel’s lip. A glob of white f—-ing spit just sitting right there. And I’m going, Oh man, that’s f—-ed. I’m doing my audition, and I spit on Denzel Washington. I might as well just go home and hang myself right now. And the thing is, he just kept on doing the scene, and at the end, they said ‘‘Cut,’’ and he’s looking at me and the spit’s still sitting there and he goes [wiping his mouth slowly], ‘‘I love the taste of warm saliva in the morning.’‘

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You know how many blooper reels there are laying around TV and movie sets? Warm saliva projected from your co-star is a definite reason for a pause in the action. I guess you don’t interrupt a passionate moment. Hah.

Do yourself a favor and read the whole interview at EW.com