Morris Chestnut Turns up the Heat in Rosewood

09 Mar, 2016

It’s no secret that Hollywood hunk Morris Chestnut is a draw for the ladies. The seasoned actor has been flashing his signature smile for as long as we can remember. With his return to television for season 2 of FOX’s hit show Rosewood, The Trending Report wanted to know what lured him from the big screen and made him commit to more television drama.

MC:

One of the things I do enjoy the most (about being on a television set) is the pacing.  There will be times on a film set, especially with emotional scenes, I’ll come to work and I’m sitting in my trailer and we’re supposed to start shooting the scene at 10:00. I’m doing all this emotional prep work, and then we don’t shoot the scene until—10:00 in the morning—then we don’t shoot the scene till 6:00 at night.  That’s the one thing I actually love about being on a television show, is I know that, primarily, when I come to work and I have an 8:00 rehearsal call, I’m going to have rehearsal at 8:00 instead of sitting in my trailer for three hours before the first rehearsal, let alone have to do an emotional scene.  So, the main thing I do love about it, is the pacing.

TR: You’ve played a doctor before but not as intense as your role in Rosewood. How did you prepare?

MC:

Yes, I’ve played a doctor before.  However, I was okay with medical terms, but I believe with this particular job, it’s just the complete volume of words and jargon and workload that I have that makes it much, much more difficult.  The last doctor I played was on Nurse Jackie to where I was in a guest starring role, maybe working two or three days a week. The brunt of the dialogue and medical terms weren’t upon myself.

With this, it just makes it really difficult, just the complete volume of everything that I have to deal with and the dialogue.  Unfortunately, after I got the job, I didn’t have time to go get my Phd, so we have a lot of consultants on set each time we have  to do some type of medical procedure.

Executive Producer Todd Harthan joined in on the conversation and steered us into the relationship drama fans can expect in the new season.

TH:

You can expect a great deal of personal things happening with not just Rosewood and Villa, but also with the other characters: Pippy, Hornstock, the matriarch of the family Donna Rosewood.  There’s some cool personal things coming and surprises, be it with Villa’s relationship with Taye Diggs and how that further complicates Villa’s relationship with Rosewood. That’s coming for sure. I think it’s a combination of explosive personal stories coming, and also a really cool way in which we’re solving  cases.

The Trending Report has learned that some of the drama will come in the form of guest appearances. Tonight’s episode will reunite arch rival characters of BET’s now cancelled series, ‘The Game’ Melanie and Janay. A victim’s death will force Pippy (Gabrielle Dennis) to offer her assistance in an investigation that forces her to revisit her dramatizing past with an old friend Cassie (Tia Mowry-Hardrict).

Along with Taye Diggs, actor Sam Huntington, who is on Being Human has been added to the series. Sherri Shepherd, will also guest appear as a medical examiner.  “That’s exciting and she’s been hilarious and a blast to work with,” Harthan said. “And you never know,  everybody you met in those first ten episodes we aired, we had a lot of great guest stars, and I think a lot of those people might be coming back in and having some surprising appearances in future episodes.”

We’ll be watching to find out.
B. Owusu

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