Tom Brady Reads Famous 'Remember the Titans' Scene With Denzel Washington

By all accounts it seems as though Tom Brady is finally leaving the NFL behind him. Or, that is, at least until he begins his new gig leading football commentary for Fox Sports next year. But it's probably good that the former quarterback has something lined up ahead of him, because it seems safe to say that acting is off the table.

That's according to a clip from the latest episode of Brady's podcast, Let’s Go! with Tom Brady, Larry Fitzgerald and Jim Gray, anyway, in which the 46-year-old attempted a read of an iconic Remember the Titans scene with Denzel Washington himself. 

Brady shared the clip in question on X (formerly Twitter) this week, and to say that his acting skills are wooden is putting it gently. The scene in question involves Washington's character, football coach Herman Boone, grilling Donald Faison's Petey Jones while meeting his new team for the first time. In one clip on YouTube, it's described as "the most Denzeliest Denzel scene Denzel has ever Denzeled," so to be fair to Brady, he had a tall task in front of him in the first place.

Table reads with the LEGEND Denzel Washington!?! Episode out now https://t.co/up0t0z210l pic.twitter.com/KPxt6jHgej

— Tom Brady (@TomBrady) November 21, 2023

After Faison's character initially attempts to high-five Washington, he berates him for insinuating that "football is fun." However, in the podcast version, while the 68-year-old actor maintains a sense of gravitas about him, Brady, on the other hand, giggles and stammers through the scene. But then again, who wouldn't be nervous going toe to toe with Denzel?

In either case, Brady seems to be very much looking forward to the next stage of his career that blessedly doesn't involve acting.

"I was very blessed to play for as long as I did, and I loved it," he said on the podcast back in September. "Now I get to see other guys do it, and I also get to see football from a different perspective. I’ll be on Fox next year, so I have a chance to really sit back and watch and learn a different career."

"I’ll be able to really watch this year from kind of a different eye," he added. "I used to watch from the lens of a quarterback, now I see it more from broadcasting, but also as a fan, and also still as a quarterback."