Chris Rock

Nurse Betty

Interviewed by Film 2000 with Jonathan Ross

Tell me about the role that you play in "Nurse Betty".

I'm Wesley, I'm a young hit man and I'm a little, you know, itchy trigger finger and just kind of a hot head.

Talk about working with Morgan Freeman, how did your relationship develop?

It was really cool. We kind of had an uncle/nephew relationship and it worked perfect on the screen. We would talk offscreen and he would tell me about marriage, he's been married a couple of times and he was telling me how to handle my money.

You usually write a lot of your own material I would imagine, how different is it approaching a scripted role?

The material was really good so it felt pretty natural. I felt fortunate to have such a good script.

When he scalps Del it's a shocking moment in the film, it kind of comes out of nowhere. Tell me about that scene.

It wasn't my idea, it was Neil's. When you are filming something it's all fake and you are really mapping it out. I mean it's not really scary while you're doing it. It just looks that way on film.

And what about your future?

I just did a movie with the directors of "American Pie" that I wrote. A little romantic comedy with me and Regina King called "I Was Made To Love Her" and I guess that's coming out in October, so that's next.