{"id":18191,"date":"2012-11-22T14:12:56","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T19:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=18191"},"modified":"2012-11-20T14:42:32","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T19:42:32","slug":"chris-tucker-in-silver-linings-playbook-comedian-returns-in-1st-non-rush-hour-film-in-over-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=18191","title":{"rendered":"Chris Tucker In \u2018Silver Linings Playbook\u2019: Comedian Returns In 1st Non-\u2019Rush Hour\u2019 Film In Over A Decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chris Tucker <\/strong>has been one of the most popular, highest paid comedians in Hollywood for the last decade \u2014 but he\u2019s only made three films.<\/p>\n<p>After the massive success of 1998s <em>Rush Hour<\/em>, his breakout action-comedy hit alongside <strong>Jackie Chan<\/strong>, <strong>Tucker<\/strong> had his pick of any number of major film roles. But instead he chose to lay low, pal around with <strong>Michael Jackson<\/strong>, and get paid $2o million-plus to star in two Rush Hour sequels.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years he\u2019s made headlines mostly for his tax troubles and the plethora of roles he missed out on, including lead parts in <em>Any Given Sunday<\/em>,<em> The Pink Panther<\/em>, <em>Tower Heist<\/em> and<strong> Quentin Tarantino\u2019s<\/strong> upcoming <em>Django Unchained<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>But now <strong>Tucker <\/strong>seems poised for a much-deserved comeback, with a supporting role in the Oscar-worthy new film S<em>ilver Linings Playbook<\/em>, which opens in select cities this weekend. Film critics and fans have been constantly asking: \u2018What took you so long?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>It appears that <strong>Tucker <\/strong>has chosen wisely, his part in <em>Silver Linings Playbook<\/em>, his first in five years, is earning some of the best reviews of his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Tucker has been one of the most popular, highest paid comedians in Hollywood for the last decade \u2014 but he\u2019s only made three films. After the massive success of 1998s Rush Hour, his breakout action-comedy hit alongside Jackie Chan, Tucker had his pick of any number of major film roles. But instead he chose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}