Craig Robinson
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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.
They laughed.
And I thought,
This is what I wanted to know.
Oh, this is it.
It was all an accident because they didn't have a school of journalism, major in journalism.
He followed.
No, what happened was, one guy came up, he said, can you sing?
Can you carry a tune?
I said, yeah, we sing in the kitchen, was my grandmother.
And he said, well, we're doing a scene in the musical comedy workshop from South Pacific, and would you be in the chorus of one of the girls who sings, I'm going to wash that man right out of my hair?
Okay, so, okay.
Now, I've never done it before, but I started belting.
Really?
And I'd never belted, but I was with all these other girls, so I had courage.
He said,
You're too loud.