Chris Rock Wants to Come Back to Broadway!

By: Aug. 01, 2012
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In a recent interview with David Itzkoff of the New York Times, stage veteran Chris Rock revealed that he'd like to return to Broadway. When asked, he responded: "Oh, I would love to. I realized with Broadway everything written for black people is usually written in the past, and I'm kind of a contemporary guy. I don't think you want to see me in "Raisin in the Sun."

He continued: "The other thing - everything on Broadway with black people, at some point, becomes "Is it ever gonna get any better?" I don't feel like saying that. What's the play they wanted me to do? "A Behanding in Spokane." I almost did that one. But I didn't feel like leaving my nice house, my palatial estate to drive into Manhattan and get called nigger every night. It's like, really?"

Click here to read the full interview. 

Rock recently made his Broadway stage debut in the play THE MOTHERF**KER WITH THE HAT. He will also executive produces FX's upcoming weekly late-night series Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell. 

 

 


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