John David Washington is praising Christopher Nolan ... I'm in a Nolan film and yeah there's a Black dude with a beard on the cover. He's never done that before, so it was rock and roll, man." ...

John David Washington, the oldest of Denzel's four kids ... zoned out on painkillers, and with a bushy beard that he blames on a post-injury funk. The producers decided to incorporate the whiskers ...