After a five-year absence from the movie business, comic Chris Tucker makes his return to the big screen this weekend in a quasi-dramatic role in David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook . But he’s not leaving comedy behind. At the New York premiere party for the film on Monday night, Tucker told me that he’s producing a film of his stand-up act. At the party, which took place in the lobby of the Royalton hotel and its restaurant Forty Four and drew Silver Linings cast members Robert De Niro , Bradley Cooper , Jacki Weaver, Julia Stiles and Russell, Tucker told me that one of the reasons he hasn’t been in a movie for so long is that “I wanted to go back and do stand-up.” When I asked if a TV special would result, he explained that he’d just shot a “stand-up movie” over the weekend in Atlanta, Ga. “We don’t have a name for it yet, but it’s a movie like Eddie Murphy’s Raw and Delirious ,” he said. The Rush Hour 3 actor said that he was producing the picture himself and that it’s “coming out early next year.” In Silver Linings Playbook , Tucker plays Danny, a friend of Bradley Cooper’s character, and a former mental institution patient. Follow Frank DiGiacomo on Twitter. Follow Movieline on Twitter.
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‘Silver Linings Playbook’ Actor Chris Tucker Says He’s Producing His Own Stand-Up Comedy Movie
