Chris Rock told Nicole Kidman during a recent conversation for Variety’s “Actors on Actors” video series that he has fired people off his sets in the past for showing a refusal to listen to women.
They had just so many things in their marriage that are so relevant today, and what she was also dealing with in terms of everything that artists deal with, where you’re up against big corporations.
Rock weighed in, “Let’s not downplay the fact how hard it must’ve been to be a woman at that time going through, you know, just like, ‘I’m the boss.
When Kidman said “it is still tricky” in Hollywood for women to navigate positions of power, Rock added, “It is still.
Rock told Kidman that his healthy relationship to his mother and the powerful women who informed his comedy career are two reasons he’s never had an issue listening to women in a work setting.
Rock added, “Everybody talks about how stand-up is a boys’ club, but stand-up’s been run by a lot of women for a lot of years.