Craig Robinson
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Podcast Appearances
And to this day, I do not know where that came from.
No way.
Was it Nana?
Are you kidding?
She wanted me to go to secretariat school.
People in the neighborhood, we were all poor.
We were on what they called, it was like the WPA, but it was called Relief.
And I showed this to Danny.
That's such a rent money.
I said, uh-uh, I'm going to UCLA.
So I got to UCLA.
And I wanted to major in journalism.
There was no major in journalism.
I could take a course and join the Daily Bruin newspaper, but there was no major.
What am I going to major in?
So I looked at the catalog, and there was theater arts, which had different sections.
Theater arts film, theater arts theater, theater arts writing, theater arts English.
So I thought, I'll take theater arts English and take playwriting courses, join the Daily Bruin, and just...
Well, when you're a freshman in theater arts, no matter which one you pick to choose to major in, you had to take an acting course.
You had to take scenery building.