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“Rosalind’s version of Misty is much rougher than my version of Misty.”
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“But as a filmmaker, he agrees that “ Top Five ” was where he found his voice.”
““I probably had that with Adam Sandler a little bit.”
““The rules on offending people, it’s almost a crime… we say we want edgy, but there’s a lot of fake edgy movies out there.”
“With his stand-up, Rock avoided being fake edgy; his analogy for how to get there is a pharmaceutical company making a cancer drug.”
“We just look at the friend we have that gets the most girls, and we copy him [about what to say and wear],” said Rock, while a guest on this week’s episode of the Filmmaker Toolkit Podcast.”
“How are you gonna cure cancer?”
“But we weren’t trying to get them fired.”
““Your edgy movie should feel edgier than an episode of ‘White Lotus,’” said Rock, who professed his love for Mike White’s HBO series.”
“Rock doesn’t disavow his early comedies, “Head of State” (2003) and “I Think I Love My Wife” (2007), but he sees them as products of playing follow-the-leader.”
“We weren’t trying to eliminate them from ever working again,” said Rock.”
““I don’t even know what the original name of the script was,” said Rock.”
““There is no page in which the words ‘Top Five’ are in the script.”
““The less money you spend, the less people you have to talk to,” said Rock.”
“While not uttering the words “cancel” or “PC,” the normally sharp-tongued Rock becomes careful in how he picks his words to describe the dilemma of finding the right collaborator on “Misty Green,” acknowledging there were now “rules” about talking about such things, before finding an analogy he was comfortable with.”
“He walked away from the experience determined to write “Top Five,” the first time he’d write a script for the type of movie he’d like to watch, and without industry executives in the back of his mind.”
“Although he landed A-listers like Adam Driver and a semi-retired Daniel Kaluuya for supporting roles, he wasn’t forced into a fatal mistake with his lead.”
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““So Rosalind let me know, ‘Whatever you gotta say, say it.”
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“A lot.” This was definitely a risk with “Misty Green, a Hollywood satire that looked at the industry’s racism, ageism, and sexism through the story of once-successful 38-year-old Black actress scraping to make ends meet.”
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