Starting out in showbiz is rarely ever easy. Michael Ealy starkly remembers, as a newbie, what it was like to work with Chris Rock at his peak. “He was just an a**hole.”
According to Ealy, he started his career in New York. He was waiting tables and bombed an audition for Bad Company, a movie with Chris Rock and Anthony Hopkins.
However, in an interview with Chicago Tribune, Michael Ealy mentions that — although he didn’t get the auditioned-for role — the movie director liked his vibe and wrote a part specifically for him.
And it placed Michael right alongside Chris, as his “best friend.” Yet, Rock’s attitude toward Ealy would prove to be completely, ironically the contrary.
“Everything went well…But Chris Rock was a little cold. He was probably at the height of his career at this point and I idolized him — I had watched all his stuff and thought he was so funny and I really respected him — but he was just kind of indifferent to me.”
