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Robin Thede Forgot ALL Her Lines successful Front of Angela Bassett
We emotion a bully fangirl moment.
In this sneak peek astatine the Nov. 23 occurrence of E!'s If We're Being Honest, big Laverne Cox and comedian Robin Thede look backmost astatine the clip they mislaid their chill filming a sketch for HBO's A Black Lady Sketch Show with the 1 and lone Angela Bassett.
The 3 starred unneurotic successful what Robin dubbed "the astir iconic sketch" from the drama series, 2019's "Bad Bitch Support Group," which earned Angela a 2020 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress successful a Comedy Series.
Three years aboriginal and Laverne is inactive processing the experience. "Even aft moving with her," she says successful the clip, "I'm conscionable like, 'You're Angela Bassett.'"
Robin agrees and brings up a comic infinitesimal from set: "Do you retrieve that I forgot each of my words erstwhile she started talking?"
But Laverne claims she was too starstruck to remember, admitting, "We were each going done our ain happening of like, 'Angela Bassett is sitting close there.'"
The acquisition was a memorable 1 for both, particularly for Robin, arsenic Angela was the archetypal celeb to motion connected arsenic a impermanent prima for the show.
"She said yes to america having ne'er seen the show," Robin recalled, "then she got nominated for an Emmy for it. I mean, it's just, it couldn't person happened immoderate better."
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Laverne points retired that Angela "still hasn't won an Emmy," thing Robin declared she volition marque hap 1 day.
"I tried to get her one," she jokes. "It's truthful crazy. I'm gonna support trying. It's my life's work."
Check retired the clip supra and perceive much from Laverne and Robin contiguous connected the caller occurrence of If We're Being Honest astatine 10 p.m. connected E!.
Watch a marque caller occurrence of If We're Being Honest with Laverne Cox Wednesdays astatine 10 p.m., lone connected E!.
