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No One Is Doing It Like Morris Chestnut


Are you paying attention to this man’s Watson press tour? Because you should be.

He appeared in a flurry of television parts in the aughts and 2010s — Nurse Jackie, ER, The Resident, Rosewood — but I always come back to his role in the 2001 film Two Can Play That Game, a war-of-the-sexes romantic comedy starring Vivica A. So half a year later, Watson is living in Pittsburgh, navigating the ripple effects of his brain injury, making peace with the current state of his relationship with ex-wife Mary Morstan (Rochelle Aytes), and running the clinic with a quippy set of underlings who are doctors who also do detective work. Whether Chestnut is appearing on TheLate Show With Stephen Colbert, sipping his branded bourbon and speaking about his 30-year marriage, or joking on CBS Mornings with a relaxed demeanor that communicates he’s not new to this but true to this, a few things become apparent.

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