For Morris Chestnut is R&B therapeutic

On By Littum

When Morris Chestnut first heard about “Watson,” a new CBS medicine mystery that was in the Sherlock Holmes mythology, he was interested. But when he first read the manuscript of the Craig Soweny – Show’s Creator and one of the authors of the other Sherlockian CBS series, “Elementary” – he became even more excited.

“He has so many crazy, creative ideas,” said Chestnut, 56. “So I rushed to it. I said, ‘I have to do it.’ “

“Watson” opens as Chestnut’s character, Dr. John Watson, rebuilds his life six months after the death of his dear friend and partner, Sherlock Holmes. Holmes has left Watson a farewell gift: a medical clinic in Pittsburgh, devoted to healing rare suffering.

“He treats patients, and although he treats these patients, he also has to treat himself,” Chestnut said.

Studying for being a doctor is stressful, but it is also studying to sound like one, and it requires a certain victim – especially for an NFL dependent.

“When I do the show, I literally have to choose a game on Sunday,” Chestnut said of learning the medical jargon who flows like Honey from Watson’s mouth. “In the middle of commercial breaks I look at the manuscript.”

“But the guys who play they live, and I have to do mine,” he said in a video call from New York before talking about gymnastics membership and pickup basketball games that keep him camera ready while spoiling himself In his favorite food group: dessert.

These are edited excerpts from the conversation.

I go to bed early and I wake up very early and it’s good for me to have the quiet time for myself before the day gets started. I’m doing a lot of work before people are up yet. It’s just important for who I am as a person.

My normal fitness center first opens at 1 p.m. 05.00, so I have a membership at a gym that is open 24 hours. Then there is another fitness center where I go to play basketball. I have three memberships that all serve their own purpose.

When I get on the treadmill, when I get on a stairman, it’s my discipline that pushes me through. When I play basketball I just have fun. I hang out with the guys. I’m talking mess to the guys. I get cardio without feeling like work.

It’s my favorite time of year. On Sundays, I literally see football from 7 p.m. 10 in the morning until 7 p.m. 8 at night. Football was my first love before I loved girls as a kid. I played pop warner. I used to sit at home and watch Howard Cosell on “Monday Night Football.” I call myself a football loss.

Not only do I love it – it’s soothing to me – but it’s also therapeutic. It is useful in my work because it triggers thoughts, triggers memories, triggers emotions. It’s such a challenging industry, and music played a huge factor in me in the future because there were some love songs that would have a lot of positive affirmations in them. I used to sing them for myself to keep me going.

I have a huge, huge sweet tooth and when I work and I know I want a shirtless scene, I’m more disciplined with my eating. Most people choose the restaurants at the main course. I choose the restaurant at the lava cake.

My wife and I have very different views of view. But the one thing we both love to see together is crime documents. I’m pretty sure we’ve seen every single version of “forensic files.” And we always see “Dateline.” I don’t like those who don’t have a conclusion. I can’t invest an hour or two for not having a payout.

I love to be comfortable. If I’m not on a set, my daily life requires a sweatsuit when I go to the gym. I have a slightly more elevated sweatsuit when running errands. And then I have an even more elevated suit, like this one when I hold interviews or I travel on the plane.

It is so intense about making an hour of drama, especially a character like Watson, where he has to evoke a lot of medical jargon. I can say a word before lunch perfect. But sometimes we go out in the late hours at night, and it’s basically another language for me.

My kids are 27 and 26. They are expecting their lives out and what they will do in the next 10 years. So we have to balance it. My son is also Eagles fan, so we see it together. My daughter, she is more of a horror movie fan, so we see them together. On her birthday she called me and said, “I want to watch a movie.” So I think, “I don’t remember any horror movie was out.” And of course it was “evil.”