Training Day (Episode 18) - Hot Date with Dan and Vicky

Part of then 31 year old Ethan Hawke's audition for Training Day was a series of casting sessions with star Denzel Washington.  It was after one of those reads that Hawke left fuming, upset that Washington had taken an improv too far, insulting and cursing him.  But director Antoine Fuqua saw exactly the relationship he needed for the characters in the film and offered Hawke the role of rookie Jake Hoyt.   Dan and Vicky cover the action thriller and it's two riveting stars but also discuss the proximity of it's initial release to the horrific events of 9/11.  They share their thoughts on the relationship between entertainment and real life tragedy with the Paris attacks  fresh in their memory.  Vicky also opens up about a mugging incident that left her afraid but not beaten. But it's not all serious on Hot Date 18.  Their shenanigans include a JLo takedown, a report from the New York Horror Film Festival and a suggestion for a hissing radiator inspired Hot Date drinking game!   King Kong ain't got nothin' on Hot Date with Dan and Vicky 18!