John David Washington is an American actor, son of Denzel Washington, who played the unnamed Protagonist in Christopher Nolan's 'Tenet' (2020) and starred in Spike Lee's 'BlacKkKlansman' (2018).
Washington's Protagonist — a CIA operative who discovers the existence of time inversion — embodied Nolan's experiment with a hero defined entirely by competence and agency rather than backstory or vulnerability.
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