How Chris Rock Convinced Rosario Dawson to do Comedy in <em>Top Five</em> — vogue.com

Relaxed on a couch inside a twelfth-floor suite at the Ritz-Carlton Central Park, wearing a printed ASOS dress and Paul Andrew shoes, Rosario Dawson is, in a sense, living out a scene from Top Five, the movie opening Friday from writer-director-actor Chris Rock in which she plays a New York Times reporter named Chelsea Brown. Only in this case, of course, Dawson is fielding rather than posing the questions—and gamely expelling a cascade of thoughts about everything from comedy to rap to her career. “I want to feel like I can look out at the stars and contemplate them and realize I’m made of stardust and that I’m actually like everyone else looking at the universe,” was one such musing. Another: “If I don’t start developing myself as a person and as an artist and all of these different things, then I’m dying, slowly—and on camera.”

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