Veteran stand-up comic, actor, and director Chris Rock is starring alongside Julie Delpy, an equally accomplished actor and director, in the recently premiered at the Sundance Film Festival flick “2 Days in New York.” Not coincidentally, Julie also co-wrote the movie, which heavily resembles her particular brand of comedy and plot from her 2007 movie “2 Days in Paris.”

Rock and Delpy play a married couple whose life together gets even zanier than usual when her father (played by Delpy’s real-life father and veteran French actor Albert Delpy), her coquettish sister, her coquettish sister’s wanna-be “wigger” (can I use that word, since I’m black?) boyfriend come visit the couple in their cramped New York apartment. Hilarity, of course, ensues.

Considering the situation–too many people; tiny apartment; Chris Rock as the calm, cool husband who provides the antidote to his wife’s oddball-ness–there’s plenty of material for the cast to play around with to provide comic relief. Thankfully, the fact that Chris and Julie are an interracial couple is barely touched upon.

When the issue of the on-screen relationship being an interracial one was brought up in an interview, both actors replied with unfeigned nonchalance:

Chris Rock: Because it isn’t really an issue. Show me one place where it’s still a taboo. I see it every day, and I see it more outside of New York and L.A. I see it more in the middle of the country than in the cities.

Julie Delpy: You know, I think in film it’s still a taboo. I never thought about it when I was writing the screenplay, and I didn’t even want to bring it up in the film. It’s just old, like something from the ‘60s, or even the ‘50s.

Chris Rock: One of the movies I’m working on, I’m trying to get Melissa McCarthy to play my wife. I think we’d make the perfect Jerry Springer couple. But it’s kind of boring, to bring it up as an issue.

When it becomes too boring for a comic to bring it up, that’s progress.