Da'Vine Joy Randolph

I remember that very clearly.

I don't even know where that came from.

Yeah.

And so I remember to go across the street to the theater department, what was like communications to copy sheet music.

And I literally was copying sheet music and it sounded like people were dying in the room next door and it was a theater class.

And so I went up to this teacher afterwards and I was like, Hey, I'm working on an opera across the street.

Like,

could you help me?

I want to like bring this to life and it'd be good.

Very long story short, the music department got ultra pissed and they were like, no, no, you can't do that.

And I was like, I don't want to cross over.

I don't want to be an actor, but I guess because it had happened so many times, they were very like territorial over it.

And they flunked me out.

Ex-squeeze me?

Yep.

And it was my mom that I'm like bawling on the phone.

This is like my junior spring.

I'm out of here.

I'm about to go be in Italy, like living my best life.

And my mom was like, go across the street.