“‘Because if I order more, I’ll drink more,'” Washington remembered telling his spouse, whom he married in 1983. “So I kept it to two bottles, and I would drink them both over the course of the day.”
While he grew custom to slugging vino on the daily, Washington said he would sober up when working on various projects.
“I never drank while I was working or preparing. I would clean up, go back to work — I could do both,” he noted. “However many months of shooting, bang, it’s time to go. Then, boom. Three months of wine, then time to go back to work.”