Claim: Denzel Washington turned down all roles for Inside Man.
Evidence: It stars Denzel Washington as Detective Keith Frazier , the NYPD 's hostage negotiator ; Clive Owen as Dalton Russell , the mastermind who orchestrates the heist ; and Jodie Foster as Madeleine White , a Manhattan power broker who becomes involved at the request of the bank 's founder , Arthur Case -LRB- Christopher Plummer -RRB- , to keep something in his own personal safe deposit box protected from the robbers.