James Patterson's 'The Chef' sees Cory Tucker fit right in playing Caleb Rooney

Tucker revealed his biggest challenge playing the role of chef Caleb Rooney, and the similarities between him and his character.

Over the years, we have seen actors portray roles from fiction and non-fiction novels in films or TV series. In 'The Chef' a multimedia interactive-fiction experience, available exclusively on Facebook Messenger, we come across an actor that portrays a character from a book as a real person.

James Patterson, one of the world's best-selling authors, recently cast Cory Tucker in the lead role of Detective Caleb Rooney in his new fictional thriller 'The Chef.' Tucker is known for his roles with Michael Bay in 'Pearl Harbor' and playing Buzz Aldrin in 'Transformers 3 - Dark Side of the Moon'.

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