![]() In his early career, Tucker didn’t give off the impression that he would eventually shun Hollywood. Don’t they know the drill? Don’t they know we expect more of the same thing that we liked from them, delivered at regular intervals to keep us satiated? We’re so accustomed to a certain showbiz routine - famous person releases new movie/TV show/record, promotes the thing, goes away to make another one, and the cycle repeats - that it can seem downright perverse when a performer disrupts the formula. Recording artists like D’Angelo have gone decades between albums. Dave Chappelle famously quit his popular show because he just wasn’t feeling it anymore. Sometimes, celebrities walk away from the spotlight. It remains one of the most fascinating vanishing acts of recent years. Instead, he essentially disappeared - or, more accurately, stopped being in movies. ![]() And with the Rush Hour films back in the collective consciousness thanks to them being added to Netflix, it’s a reminder that, at one point, it seemed like Tucker was going to be the next comedic superstar. But this week, there was also a brief period when a “Chris Tucker has died” rumor swirled on social media, and while it wasn’t true, it underlined the fact that the 51-year-old has spent most of the last two decades avoiding the thing that made him famous. That was eight years ago, but if you check his Twitter today, you’ll see announcements of upcoming shows, as well as the occasional shoutout to his hometown Atlanta sports teams. If you follow me on Twitter then you know.” Last year, I was all over Australia and the Middle East. ![]() “It surprises me sometimes because I’m always working,” he said in 2014. For the record, Chris Tucker hasn’t gone anywhere, although he knows that some fans think otherwise.
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