I got a better one- why doesn’t someone ask the old man directly while they’re ducking the punch.

from www.tmz.com – Laurence Fishburne’s daughter tells TMZ that the legendary actor is “very hurt” over her new XXX career path … but for some reason, she’s confident they can bury the hatchet.

Montana Fishburne — aka “Chippy D” — tells TMZ, “[My dad] is very upset. I heard that he’s mad at me but I haven’t spoken to him yet. I feel pretty confident that I can work things out with him.”

But here’s where she might be wrong — adding, “I think he wants to support me in everything I do, and though he sees this now as a negative, I believe in time he will view it as a positive.”

According to Montana, she and Morpheus have always been on good terms — in fact, up until the whole porn thing, she claims they spoke on a weekly basis. However, Montana also tells us she never gave her dad a heads-up on the porno news.

Montana tells us she plans to meet with her father soon to hash everything out.

As we previously reported, Montana decided to star in a sex tape for Vivid Entertainment in the hopes that she can further her career in Hollywood … a la Kim Kardashian.