“Slow Horses” Star Rosalind Eleazar Had to Rediscover Her Singing Voice for New Chris Rock Movie: ‘It Opens You Up’ (Exclusive)

Tommy McArdleTue, October 20, 2026 at 2:02 PM UTC

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Rosalind Eleazar; Misty GreenCredit: Tiffany Rose/Getty; A24 -

Rosalind Eleazar tells PEOPLE about reconnecting with her singing voice for her new movie Misty Green and combating nerves on set

Eleazar costars with Chris Rock, Anna Kendrick, Topher Grace, Adam Driver and more in the new movie, which Rock wrote and directed

Misty Green is in theaters now

Rosalind Eleazar had to rediscover her singing voice for her latest movie.

The actress, 38, tells PEOPLE in a recent interview that although she grew up singing, she had to put in the work to get her vocals back into shape to portray a struggling Hollywood actress with a remarkable voice in her new movie with Chris Rock, Misty Green.

Some of the film’s most memorable moments come when the Slow Horses star shows off her vocal talents as the title character, a former Emmy winner struggling to find acting work — and a new home — years after her big Hollywood breakthrough failed to translate into lasting success.

“It was really, really, really special to reconnect. There’s something really special about music, just generally, and the purity of it, and the connection between instrument, whether that be a physical instrument or voice to the audience in a way that’s quite unique in all the disciplines,” Eleazar says. “You can’t edit it. I mean, you can if you’ve recorded it, but live — the closest thing I can think of is theater. And it opens you up.”

Misty Green, written and directed by Rock, 61, marks a major leading role for Eleazar, just seven years after making her film debut in 2019’s The Personal History of David Copperfield.

“It opens you up, singing, because you have to connect to a place,” she adds. “So it was really good to reconnect to my voice in a way, and nerve-wracking and exposing.”

Rosalind Eleazar in Misty GreenCredit: A24

While Eleazar’s title character rarely lets her nerves spring to the surface, the actress says she certainly felt an “intimidating” factor working with Rock, whose comedy and acting work she admired as a kid growing up in London.

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“He’s totally an icon in the U.K., and I remember when I had my first Zoom with him, and I thought, ‘That’s Chris Rock there. This is Chris Rock,’” she recalls. “We’re doing an audition with Chris Rock. Mad!’”

Eleazar is surrounded by an A-list cast in Misty Green that includes Adam Driver, Topher Grace, Daniel Kaluuya, Anna Kendrick and Rock himself, among others.

“I remember being chronically nervous for my first day on this,” she says. “It’s the first time that you’re meeting your new team. All the different actors, all the different departments. There’s a lot of people on set. It’s like a first day at school, and it’s nerve-wracking. And then once it starts, it’s insane how quickly you become comfortable with the crew. By the end of the first day, like, ‘Oh, it feels like we’ve been doing this for two weeks already.’”

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Chris Rock and Rosalind Eleazar in Misty GreenCredit: A24

Luckily for Eleazar, she knows how to embrace her own nerves on set and on screen.

“I’m kind of the camp that feel the fear and do it anyway,” she says of dealing with nerves elsewhere in the interview. “I don’t think you can get rid of nerves, so you kind of just kind of acknowledge that they’re there. And it’s a kind of a good thing to feel nervous because it means you care. So I sometimes try and just embrace it. I’m like, ‘Oh, I’m really nervous right now. Cool. That’s okay. I’m nervous. Cool.’ That somehow softens me a little bit.”

Misty Green is in theaters now.

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