Chris Rock rips Jackie Robinson biopic '42' in 'Top Five' deleted scene
theGRIO REPORT - Chris Rock had a few choice words for the Jackie Robinson biopic "42" — all in-character, of course. In a deleted scene on the DVD extras of "Top Five," Rock's character, Andre Allen, blasts the biopic in a stand-up routine...
Chris Rock had a few choice words for the Jackie Robinson biopic “42” — all in-character, of course.
In a deleted scene on the DVD extras of “Top Five,” Rock’s character, Andre Allen, blasts the biopic in a stand-up routine.
“People liked that movie,” Rock’s character says in the clip. “I thought it was a piece of s—.”
“Just the whole ‘legend of Jackie Robinson’ b——-,” he continues. “They go Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier. There was no barrier. It was just that no white people would let him play.
Watch the deleted scene clip from ‘Top Five’ below:
“They try to make it seem like he got to play because he was so good – like he was the first black man that actually learned how to play baseball. Like all the black people before him were just licking the ball.”
“Then you watch the movie and it’s like ‘stop it,'” the comedian adds.
He went on to criticize the emphasis the movies puts on Harrison Ford’s character, Brooklyn Dodgers president Branch Rickey.
“Any civil rights movie, there’s two heroes: There’s the black hero, and the white person who’s equally as important.”
This deleted scene and other DVD extras will be part of the DVD and Blu-Ray release of “Top Five” on March 17.
