Sheryl Lee Ralph Recalls Shooting Abbott Elementary Halloween Special in 107-Degree Heat: 'I Was Enveloped in Fur'

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00:00Miss Cheryl E. Ralph, please come up here and join us.

00:02Cheryl E. Ralph, hello again. How are you?

00:06I'm very well, thank you. Very well, very excited, happy to be here once again.

00:11Once again? I mean, you're a regular these days.

00:14I mean, for the third year in a row, it feels like that.

00:16Goodness, so well-deserved.

00:18So I was telling him before we got started about NPTF last night

00:22and just how fun of a party it was, how good the food was,

00:25but also your speech, imploring all of these actors,

00:29all of these producers, everyone there to recognize,

00:32yeah, the strike was a while ago, but it wasn't,

00:35and we still have people feeling it.

00:37So how much time is spent, yes, on screen doing the amazing thing you do,

00:41but also working with the actors here?

00:45Community is everything.

00:46If you don't take care of the people in your community,

00:49when you need help, there might not be anybody to help you.

00:54So do all you can, and you know what they say,

00:57to whom much is given, much is expected.

01:02I'm all about using the time to make good of my time here on Earth.

01:06You sure did.

01:07Well, thank you very much.

01:08It was great hearing you.

01:09Thank you very much.

01:10Well, the Motion Picture Television Fund, I'm sure, thanks you,

01:12but so do teachers everywhere for all that Abbott does

01:15in advocating for funding and schooling

01:17and really showing people what goes into raising,

01:21not just teaching, but raising the next generation of Americans.

01:26So thank you for that as well.

01:27But I'm going to pivot that into a little bit more fun.

01:30Obviously, we are here celebrating your past season,

01:33but we've got some good stuff to look forward to.

01:35You did a lovely chat with one of the People editors earlier this week at a panel,

01:41and you were discussing an upcoming Halloween episode.

01:45Let me just say, it was hot, hot, hot.

01:48It was 107 degrees, and I was enveloped in fur.

01:53Oh my God, but it's such a funny episode.

01:57We are probably six episodes in,

02:00and I cannot tell you just how funny they are.

02:04It's our writers are amazing.

02:07And our director, producer, Randall Einhorn,

02:10who's also nominated this year,

02:12everybody just does such an incredible job on the show

02:17that I'm very happy, very happy.

02:20You are so good on this show in that you have that just built-in comedic timing,

02:25even though you play straight.

02:28Do you crack?

02:29We all do. There are sometimes moments where one of us will do something.

02:33We cannot hold it in, and we just have to let it out.

02:38And we hope that we've held it in long enough

02:41so that we don't have to redo it, you know,

02:43but very often everybody will crack up.

02:45Who cracks the most, though?

02:46Everybody. Everybody. It's crazy.

02:50I hold it in the most.

02:51Okay, there we go.

02:52That's what I thought. That's what I thought.

02:53Well, don't hold anything in tonight.

02:55Please enjoy yourself.

02:56Have a fantastic Emmys,

02:58and can't wait to see you cutting it up on a dance floor later.

03:00Oh, yeah.

03:01In my custom Versace.

03:03Ooh, with the bow.

03:05In my Cartier jewelry.

03:07Get it.

03:08And my eye candy of a husband.

03:10Where is he?

03:12There he is.

03:14Black and blue is a big trend tonight.

03:16So you guys are in it?

03:17On trend.

03:18Yes, we are.

03:18I love it.

03:19Amazing.

03:20It's setting the tone.

03:20I love it.

03:21Have the best time.

03:22Enjoy yourself.

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