Tiffany Haddish Reflects On Declining Chris Rock Movie Role In "Top Five"

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Tiffany Haddish is bigger than an actress, she’s her own brand of funny and it’s not by accident we know her for what comes out of her mouth and not what’s underneath her clothes. In a recent roundtable-style interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Haddish reflects on how her standards as an entertainer early on shaped who she is as a business today.

In an interesting reveal, Tiffany says she said ‘no’ to being cast in Chris Rock’s “Top Five” because the character was put in a sexually demeaning situation, one she would never be down for in real life.

“You know, when I first hit the scene, I was offered a lot of roles where they want you to expose your breasts. I remember that movie that Chris Rock did [Top Five] and it’s like he meets two girls and they have a threesome and then Cedric [the Entertainer] gets in there and he’s supposed to go ‘blah’ all over their faces–just let that baby batter go all up in their face. And it was like, ‘Tiffany, they’re offering you the role.’ And I was like, ‘I don’t want that role. I’m a stand-up comedian and I don’t let people do that in my face in real life, so why would I do it in a movie?’”

Ya heard?! Tiffany continues:

“Like, you ought to have a little bit of respect for me, period. God made this face for a reason and you’re not going to disrespect it. I feel like sometimes my representation tried to get me to go outside my lane, and if it is against my morals—and I do have some. I know I’m a little wild but I do have standards—then somebody might get fired.

It’s like, I’m a company, I’m a brand, and if you try to go against the policy of the company, you might not need to be working here anymore,” she continued. “So my people, we have weekly conversations about where I’m at mentally, what I want to do. And right now, almost everything I’m doing, I’m producing…My lane is big. I got a five-lane highway, and I have standards and I’ll be damned if anybody makes me sway.”

We see you, Tiffany!