Morris Chestnut Reflects on Surviving and Thriving Three Decades in the Business: ‘In Hollywood, There’s No Blueprint’

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Morris Chestnut doesn’t have a “secret” to success, per se, but there is one thing he wishes he’d done when he started working in the industry three decades ago: study. “If I knew when I was first …

“For lawyers, you go to undergrad, law school and take the bar. Doctors have a very specific route to become a doctor,” Chestnut says. “In Hollywood, there’s no blueprint. It just doesn’t work like that. My whole driving thought was, ‘Continue to work.’ That is what I want to do: work.”

“I really watch people and I ask a lot of questions. With Cuba, it was a situation where he had been working in the industry for a long time. I think he had a holding deal. He had some experience. I was asking him a lot of questions at that time, and he was telling me a few things about the nature of the industry,” says Chestnut. “I never really had a mentor, someone who says, ‘You should do this. You shouldn’t do that.

“I thought I was going to have a finance career. I was working at the bank, and I asked my manager for some time off for an audition. She came back about a week later, asking, ‘Hey, did you ever get that part?’ I was like, ‘No, I didn’t get it.’ She was like, ‘Listen, when the acting thing is over for you, we’d always love to have to here,’” he says. “She was just trying to be nice, but it was one of the things that motivated me.

However, he couldn’t sit with the fact that he’d constantly be reminded that he could have been a star.

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