Chris Sullivan

For Chicago, Shy Time.

But he's somebody who's been a staple.

Kalita Smith, who plays Laurel's mom, was on the Bernie Mac show.

Then her aunt is a famous Juilliard woman, Lisa Gay Hamilton, who won her Emmy for The Practice.

Oh, wow.

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So there's like all these people that are popping up.

Populating, yeah, yeah.

And you get this sense that Laurel is a bit of a fish out of water within her own family.

Like there is an observed and proper way of representing this family.

You know what I'm saying?

To a certain degree.

I think so.

Cause she would love to go visit her favorite aunt.

who was played by Lisa Gay, who was also a similar kindred spirit.

Like when I see you, I see someone, some people like to dot their I's and cross their T's before they do anything else.

And other people like to just dive in, you know, to life, feet first and just their head first and just see what happens.

And she's like, how do you know?

She's like, cause I'm the same way, right?

So she's got somebody in her life who gets her while everybody else is sort of trying to observe convention, right?