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
When you are the lead in a romantic comedy, you have to worry about people really liking you.
At one point, people thought that Eddie Murphy would only reach one sector of the audience, but now everyone sees everything Eddie Murphy does.
I enjoy what I do, but it's more challenging than people think.
Ultimately what I want to do, I want to go back and do some more action movies.
I would like more challenging roles. I definitely would like to something that's more challenging.
You go from movies where you are wearing nice clothes and you're trying to smell good to a movie where you are in water and you are wet all day, and you are dealing with that elements, it gets rough, but it was definitely something I wanted to try.
I want to tell stories for everyone, primarily.
I don't really know where the rumors started. They just started. Because I saw a number of people rumored for the role and there was never any discussion, never any conversations. I think Chadwick Boseman is a great actor. I saw Get on Up and he killed that role. So, I think he's going to do a great job.
I want viewers to relate to me on a different level, not just a sexual level.
It's hard when you see a scene where it's raining, and we have the rain machine, and you see it for 5 minutes, but that scene takes all day to shoot, and you do it with rain, and the dry off, and go back and do it again.
I think that Mos Def is the best actor, but when you talk about rappers in films, I don't really think the quality of the acting is most important because most rappers are put in movies because of the personality and people want to see that.
I think there's a bit of me in every character. Basically it just depends on what happens with the character.
I did a film which was considered an independent movie with Dustin Hoffman and Andy Garcia called Confidence, and that's the type of film I was willing to take a chance on that because of the caliber of people involved with the film.
Producing is easier, I can just be at the set overseeing the story.