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Everybody hates Chris (Everybody Hates Chris2005-2009) is based on the life of comedian Chris Rock, famous for films such as Big peopleIt is Madagascar (in which he voices the zebra Marty). In 2016, he hosted the Oscars. He was inspired by his own childhood memories to propose the series to producer Ali LeRoi and, therefore, was also the original narrator of the 88 episodes shown. But not all the details of the stories were true to his true biography. Check it out below.
bullying at school
Chris actually had to enroll in a high school in a white neighborhood and suffered a lot of racial prejudice. “At 17, we had to get him out of there or he would have been killed,” his mother, Rose Rock, told the website. Fox News. The difference is that the school was called James Madison, not Corleone, as in the show.
The big family
His father is really named Julius and Chris is really the eldest son. But he had six brothers (not two): Andre, Tony, Brian, Kenny, Andi and Jordan. With so many people, it was even more difficult to support the family. “Rock’s 16th birthday party was a tubaína and dyed water”, recalls friend Chris Sealy
almost marginal
At various times, poverty almost drove the actor to crime. According to friend David Waters, the actor was beaten by the police after using a toy gun to ward off enemies. Rock himself told the magazine Details: “I never smoked crack, but one summer a friend and I got pretty close to dealing”
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