Denzel Washington, who on Monday finally met longtime fan Brenda Haines, found the encounter anticlimactic, the Oscar-winning actor said. 'I don't know, from her fan mail I always thought she'd be more exciting, I guess,' Washington said following his awkward four-minute conversation with the 47-year-old Pomona waitress and mother of three. 'And I'd always imagined she was taller.' 