Rosalind Eleazar crushes ‘risqué’ role as Chris Rock’s ‘Misty Green’

TORONTO – Chris Rock draws laughs when he admits that he loves "a messy woman.” Casting for one in a movie can be serious business.

For his new drama “Misty Green,” a sharp satire of the Hollywood industry that’s both dark and comic, Rock needed to find someone to play a volatile, self-sabotaging former A-lister who needs to get her mind and life right to get her career back on track. And he found his perfect Misty in British actress Rosalind Eleazar, a likely best actress contender at next year's Academy Awards.

“I like to make things that I haven’t seen,” Rock said after the Sept. 12 world premiere of “Misty Green” (in theaters Oct. 9) – his first writing and directing effort since 2014’s “Top Five” – at Toronto International Film Festival. “Even silly movies like ‘CB4,’ I haven’t seen it, so let’s make it.”

Eleazar was “so overwhelmed” when she first read Rock’s script, she said. “It was such an honest and raw take on the dark side of our industry. I fell in love with Misty. She’s such a complex and contradictory and fluid character, and I’m drawn to characters who are difficult to love.”

The actress…

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