Top Five
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Oct 15, 2026
Bradley MartinPANELIST
Mm-hmm
Nathan FlynnPANELIST
... and Top Five, and this is easily, I would say, his most interesting film to date.
Bradley MartinPANELIST
Yeah.
Bradley MartinPANELIST
Yeah.
Chris CoxHOST
No, Top Five was the one.
Bradley MartinPANELIST
You, you thought Top Five was the-
Chris CoxHOST
I, I loved Top Five.
Bradley MartinPANELIST
Oh, really?
speaker_1PANELIST
Mm-hmm
Nathan FlynnPANELIST
... and Top Five, and this is easily, I would say, his most interesting film to date.
Chris CoxHOST
Yeah, yeah.
speaker_1PANELIST
No, Top Five was the one.
Nathan FlynnPANELIST
You, you thought Top Five was the-
speaker_1PANELIST
I, I loved Top Five.
Nathan FlynnPANELIST
Oh, really?
speaker_1PANELIST
I, yeah.
John HumphreyHOST
[laughs] There- Oh, dude ...
John HumphreyHOST
the idea was conceived after watching the film Top Five.
John HumphreyHOST
In that film, Chris Rock's character enters the movie theater and sees movie [laughs] goers lined up for a fictional Tyler Perry movie about Madea fighting ghosts in a haunted house.
John HumphreyHOST
The movie was also called Boo.
Tonya MosleyHOST
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Tonya MosleyHOST
It's been 12 years since Chris Rock directed his last movie, the romantic comedy Top Five.
Tonya MosleyHOST
Now he has a new one, Misty Green, which stars Rosalind Eleazar as a once successful Hollywood actress whose career has taken a downward turn.
Tonya MosleyHOST
Our critic at large, John Powers, says that the film, which also stars Adam Driver and Rock himself, is bursting with energy but takes you to bleaker places than you might anticipate
speaker_1NARRATOR
Finding her career stalled, she fights for a second chance at returning to the spotlight.
speaker_1NARRATOR
In addition to Misty Green, Rock's other directorial credits include the feature films Top Five, I Think I Love My Wife, and Head of State, and an episode of Everybody Hates Chris.
speaker_1NARRATOR
He was nominated for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Variety Talk News Sports Specials for Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Following a screening of the film at the DGA Theater in New York, Rock spoke with director Spike Lee about filming Misty Green.
10 MINS LATER
Chris RockGUEST
He only worked probably eight, 10 days.
Spike LeeMODERATOR
Oh.
Chris RockGUEST
But Adam Driver would, Adam Driver loved Top Five, this movie I did, uh, 10 years ago, and he would just call me periodically.
Chris RockGUEST
What are you working on? What do you got? I'm here whenever you need me, you know? So I kinda knew I had him- And I was, and I'd also knew that Anna Kendrick was already interested, so that made me not...
Chris RockGUEST
Uh, yeah.
Chris RockGUEST
So I kind of came out the closet a little bit in a top five.
Chris RockGUEST
So most
Chris O'FaltHOST
people are trying to get into the criterion closet and you're, you're coming out.
Chris O'FaltHOST
It's maybe the most distinct thing about it.
Chris O'FaltHOST
And one knows that, and you've talked about this, when you're working on your stand-up, you're going to the club, you're getting that pacing, that timing, that delivery right.
Chris O'FaltHOST
There's no real equivalent like you've written those jokes and you've written, you've written top five, you've written misty green, but there's like, there isn't necessarily that way as a director to control that.
Chris O'FaltHOST
I mean, there is, but I mean like that idea that like you write a joke, you can instantly kind of go and get it.
Alejandro GHOST
...
Alejandro GHOST
I'm, hey, I'm, I'm not saying, hey, top five billing.
Alejandro GHOST
No.
Alejandro GHOST
But there's not a single role in the movie that he can play? I'm not saying top billing.
Alejandro GHOST
Yeah.
Alejandro GHOST
Um, and then the one that they're talking the most about, 'cause I will show you the clip of Tony-
AD DolphinHOST
Top Five?
Alejandro GHOST
Top Five.