Morris Chestnut
Morris Chestnut
Morris Lamont Chestnutis an American actor. He currently stars in the Fox TV series, Rosewood. Chestnut plays the title role, a private high-level pathologist named Dr. Beaumont Rosewood Jr., who works in Miami, Florida, assisting local law enforcement's murder investigations. The series premiered on Fox on September 23, 2015...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth1 January 1969
CityCerritos, CA
CountryUnited States of America
I've had some physically challenging roles.
I've been in a situation where I was after the money.
Showtime has given new, young filmmakers - black, white, across the board - an opportunity to make films, as well as actors who want to cross over into directing.
Some people make a career out of doing one thing, but I wanted to diversify my body of work.
I've done a lot of different things. I would say, it's really hard for me to say what the ultimate role would be. You look at a film if it comes to you.
To me the work is so much more interesting, the parts that don't require you just to take your shirt off.
I am just another fireman because the story focuses on Joaquin Phoenix's character, but I play Joaquin's close friend and I get burned up a little bit, but I don't die.
Unless you are really grounded and have a true sense of reality, you can get lost in that and a lot of people do and that's why you see so many people with successful careers but with destructive lives.
If someone had said to me ten years ago "Yo, we have this role of this pimp who wants to be a rapper, he lives in Memphis", I'd be like, "Really?" But then when you read it and you see it, you say "That's a great role."
You start making movies and people start seeing when you go to places, and all of a sudden you are getting clothes for free and all of a sudden you are getting food for free.
I'm getting to the point where they see me as a good actor, rather than just a good guy who can act.
You have to be insane to direct.
Oh yeah, I'm a huge romance fan. And some women like action.
I hate being cold and I hate being wet and around 80% percent of this film I was cold and another 60% I was cold and wet, so it wasn't the best shoot for me.