Breh

stop lol. I like Denzel as much as the next man but he's not doing Daniel Plainview or Bill the Butcher. Denzel's greatest acting job continues to be Malcolm X and he hasn't approached that save for Training Day and even that isn't close to what he was doing with Malcolm. There's a certain style and approach to acting that he has and he wouldn't have done justice to those roles the way Daniel Day did. But again on the flip side, Lewis probably couldn't pull off some of the stuff Denzel does with ease. I can't see him having the same amount of charisma or charm to something like 2 Guns.
The one role that Denzel has done recently that I can see Daniel possibly doing is the cat he played in Flight but even then, there's something about Denzel's approach that makes that role better in his hands than someone else's