Denzel Washington plays what character in the "The Equalizer 2"?

Denzel Washington plays Robert McCall in The Equalizer 2. McCall is a retired Marine and former Defense Intelligence Agency officer who has reinvented himself as a quiet Boston resident and home-improvement-store employee.

The 2018 film is the direct sequel to The Equalizer (2014), also directed by Antoine Fuqua. In the sequel, McCall works as a Lyft driver while secretly helping vulnerable people, then pursues revenge after the murder of his former colleague Susan Plummer.

A common mix-up is confusing McCall with Edward Woodward’s character from the original 1980s television series. Both versions use the name Robert McCall, but Washington’s film portrayal is a reimagined version. The Equalizer 2 was Washington’s first movie sequel and was followed by The Equalizer 3 in 2023.