Speakeasy with Chris Rock and Nia Long
October 8, 2009 at 5:54 pm by Edward Adams in movies & tv, speakeasy
HAIR CLUB: Chris Rock and Nia Long discuss Good Hair during a recent press tour for his upcoming documentary.
When Chris Rock’s daughter came home from school asking why she doesn’t have “good hair,” the question set him on a worldwide quest to track down the answer. In his latest project, titled Good Hair, opening in Atlanta Fri., Oct. 9, Rock reveals the origins of the notion of refined hair for blacks and the lengths to which black women, and sometimes men, will go to acquire it. Here, Rock and co-star Nia Long discuss the Good, the bad and the funny.
How do you think growing up in Bed-Stuy impacted your comedic sensibility growing up?
Chris Rock: New York is a funny place — I can only compare it to L.A. … It’s not a funny place. Everybody wants to be in show business in L.A., no matter what — everything revolves around show business. Where in New York, you can go to a good party given by the corrections officers.
Your wife, Malaak, who runs an organization that helps empower women to transition back into the workplace, was missing from the film’s conversation. Why is that?
I have a policy when I’m doing movies or anything to not hire people I can’t fire. So if I filmed her and didn’t like what I got — what am I gonna do, am I going to cut my wife out the movie? No, I’m going to keep it in so I can keep a smooth house. ‘Cause that’s more [important] than anything and then the movie is not as good, and we don’t have anything.
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