Summary
Chris Rock's first film as actor and director, Head of State, was a comedy about a black presidential candidate. His newest, I Think I Love My Wife, is, for him, even more political, a romantic comedy about the black middle class. He'll see if he can get your vote.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment. |
| 0:13.6 | Welcome to The Treatment. |
| 0:14.7 | I'm Elvis Mitchell. |
| 0:15.4 | You can also do this show at KCRW.com. |
| 0:18.5 | As a stand-up, Chris Vock is known for his bold, direct, honest style, and he's brought that style to films he's been involved with personally, from his directorial debut to I Think I Love My Wife, to his newest, the documentary Good Hair, Chris, first of all, thanks for coming back. |
| 0:31.5 | Oh, thanks for having me, Elvis. |
| 0:32.9 | Before we get started, I have to ask you about the title, which basically informs what the movie is. You know, you want a title that causes a reaction. And, you know, with black people of a certain |
| 0:42.8 | age, the title, good hair, just makes them kind of jump. For black people, a certain age, |
| 0:47.8 | is a judgment. It gets back to that thing about, you know, skin color and hair. I mean, |
| 0:52.2 | how close you are to being a white person. How close you are to being a white person? |
| 0:55.7 | Not at all. |
| 0:57.0 | I remember I even said it to Spike, and he even got like a little... |
| 1:00.2 | The guy who made school days kind of bristles about it? |
| 1:03.0 | He didn't say anything, but he just definitely looked at me like, what the... |
| 1:07.0 | I'm trying to get him to direct it for a couple of times. |
| 1:12.5 | What happened? |
| 1:13.5 | He's got his own docs. |
| 1:14.7 | Spikes does his own stuff. |
| 1:16.7 | If you're going to hire Spike, you've got to pay him a ton of money. |
| 1:19.6 | Or else he's going to do his own stuff. |
| 1:21.6 | God bless him. |
| 1:22.8 | But, yeah, me and Jeff Stillson, he did what we had to do. |
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