Chris Rock and his cast are well aware thatTop Fiveworks.

You know its weirdI made this moviejustlike my stand up, Rock said to the room full of journalists.

I used to have a movie process and a stand up process.

These are the jokes for the movie, and I had a whole other file for stand up.

I put it altogether, and I workshopped it a long time, like I do my stand up.

He credited it for giving him the opportunity to approach producer Scott Rudin about the project.

And I kind of had a decent idea and I went to Scott [Rudin].

That smile cracks again.

You cant make anything really good unless you know how much it can suck, Rock said.

The worst movies tend to have the best people in them.

Then theresHoward the Duckwhere theyre just trying stuffI mean, it istrying!

I kept calling him a conductor, Dawson said with complete earnestness.

She elaborated, Just because you have that much talent doesnt mean its going to be watchable.

And I thought that was really remarkable, he did that, but he was different with everyone.

Dawson said, We played with it over and over again.

We both had so many ideas that it was impossible to cut.

And Id be like can I add these four more lines?

And hes like, But yeah, the scene only needs to be this big.

And Id be like, I can say them really, really fast!

We dont even call it hip-hop; its just music.

We treat it like its any other music.

And in most movies, they treat rap music or hip-hop music like its this new thing.

Like only old people call it the Internet.Social media!

[For] young people, its just whatever it is.

Im not the director; Im the protector.

And youve got to protect it, because theres nothing worse than a bad comedy.

As Rock says this, he gets that playful look in his eye and starts to smile again.

Drama, you actually get credit for completion!

[beat] I likeGone Girl.

you’re free to make nine versions onGone Girlthat work.

But when youre doing a comedy, theres kind of one version that works.

And if you miss anything to the left, to the right, two-second syllables, youve got nothing.

So, its my job that all this stuff works.

Top Fivewill seems very poised to work when it hits the big screen later this week.

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