Craig Robinson
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You had to take costume.
Okay.
And so now I'm in this acting course.
That's great.
Oh, God.
And all these kids, they were doing scenes.
I was late in getting to the class because I hadn't known about this particular major.
So I was about—they had already been there maybe two weeks.
So they were doing final scenes for the teacher, and they were fabulous.
I teamed up with a fellow student and he picked a scene from Noel Coward's... Oh, I can't remember the name of it.
Where we sang a little bit.
Okay.
And I pretended, because I love the movies, to be Betty Grable with a Cockney accent.
And I became her.
Wow.
And we got an A. And...
Then I got into a one act, a student one act, and I played a hillbilly woman.
So I went back to my great-grandmother in Arkansas and thought about her.
And I remember I had a line where I came in and you had to be there, but I said, I'm back, like that.
And the place exploded.