11/2/2023 0 Comments Jackie chan and chris tuckerWhat’s more, both directors reached out to him. Russell ( Silver Linings Playbook) and Ang Lee ( Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk). We'll find it.’ If they give me that room, then let's just do it.” Prior to this year, he’d only done two films that weren’t Rush Hours, both with Oscar-winning directors, David O. And if I could feel some trust in who I'm working with-the director saying, ‘Hey, we'll work it out. What counts as “good” to Tucker? He says he looks for roles where he’ll “have a lot of freedom to be able to create within the script. I went up to the captain and said, ‘I'll pay you whatever you want to take me back to New York.’" Took a private jet back to LA and as soon as I landed, I had a message: ‘Michael Jackson wants to meet you tomorrow morning.’ I was still on the plane. I said, well, I ain't heard from him, I got to go. “I was in New York for two days waiting to meet MJ,” Tucker recalls. So he traveled the world, broadening his perspectives, all the while discovering the mainstream appeal of Rush Hour suddenly became an international skeleton key, opening doors at the highest levels of fame, from the White House-President Bill Clinton, so endeared by a Chelsea Clinton name-drop Tucker ad-libbed in the film, began taking him along to all types of events here and abroad-to Neverland Ranch. “And I said, well, let me travel a little bit, live a little bit, instead of waiting on those things.” “It got to a point that I wanted to only do special and those things weren't coming to me-and I couldn't find them,” he explains. Now that he was a bonafide star, a new, different kind of high was eluding him. He’d done the legwork, taking on everything from parts in Heavy D and 2Pac music videos to five minutes in a Tarantino film (a very memorable five minutes). In the post- Rush Hour afterglow, Tucker found himself totally disinterested in working just to solidify his name as a marquee fixture. I knew I didn’t want to just make a whole bunch of money making movies that don't really mean anything. But I knew there had to be something more. “Bought every car you can imagine, private planes, all that stuff. Still, as steadily as his star was rising, Rush Hour quickly made his career go supernova.Īfter Rush Hour, Tucker owns up to his fair share of excess-but unlike some of his Hollywood peers, he hit the brakes before there was any real danger of a tailspin. Jokes like “I’m so broke, if a n-gga robbed me, it would just be for practice” quickly made him a favorite. An early fascination with Eddie Murphy and Richard Pyror-plus a natural talent for getting laughs cutting up in class-inspired him to try stand-up, which quickly propelled him into the LA comedy circuit. Tucker was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the youngest of six brothers and sisters. He’s laughing as he says it, but Tucker’s been getting a version of that question for the better part of two decades now. “Why don’t you make movies?” Ben Affleck remembers asking Tucker while they got to know each other making Air. Tucker plays Howard White, a real-life executive in Nike’s then-fledgling basketball department, whom Jordan himself credits with being instrumental in swaying his decision to sign with the brand-so much so that Jordan said that White was a glaring omission when Affleck let him have an early look at the script to get his blessing. The film, loosely based off of Phil Knight’s Shoe Dog, chronicles the efforts of Knight and Sonny Vaccarro (Matt Damon) to land Michael Jordan at Nike. The film is Air, Ben Affleck’s feelgood biopic revolving around the other iconic MJ. Seven years or “that’s what they tell me,” he says, shrugging. He lives in Las Vegas, but he’s in Los Angeles talking with me at the Four Seasons to promote the end of his longest sabbatical yet.
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