It appears as if Chris Rock has finally made a critically acclaimed movie.
Top Five (due Dec. 12) has some early momentum in film circles, and the actor recently sat down with Charlie Rose to discuss the differences between white and black celebrities.
"I wanted to do a movie about black fame," he said (via Deadline). "Being famous as a black guy is a little different than being famous as a white guy. Tom Hanks is an amazing actor, but Denzel Washington is a god to his people. Denzel Washington has a responsibility to his people that Tom Cruise, Liam Neeson, all these guys don't have.
"No one says 'Hey, Tom Cruise! Stay white! Don't forget your whiteness! Come back and visit white people! What-chu doin' for white people, Tom Cruise?!'"
Rock noted that a different kind of pressure exists for African American stars like Washington.
"(Black people) want to know that Denzel loves his people," he said. "That's he doing stuff for his people. They feel his highs and lows more than white people. If Tom Hanks does a bad movie, there's gonna be another good movie by somebody white next week. If Denzel does a bad movie, I might not see a good black movie for a year."
While Top Five doesn't drop for roughly a month, it's already received a 92 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes from 13 reviewers.
Here's the RT synopsis: Pulsing with the rhythm of his greatest stand-up, Chris Rock's TOP FIVE takes things to the next level, reveling in the high and the low, and blending a star-studded comedic romp with an irresistible romance. TOP FIVE digs under the surface of show business, politics, rap, and the exigencies of being black and famous today-holding it all up to the light in the way only Chris Rock can.
Check out the full Rose interview:
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