Sweet baby Jesus and the grown one, too!
Sheryl Lee Ralphinspired a viral cold open in season 2 ofAbbott Elementary.
“I made one mistake!”
Sheryl Lee Ralph and Quinta Brunson on ‘Abbott Elementary’.Gilles Mingasson/ABC
the Emmy winner said.
“When you hear the nameDarren Star, tell me you don’t think of a six-foot basketball player.
Now you know Darren Star sounds like a Black man.”
Ralph also mistook actorOrlando Bloom, also white, for a Black man.
“Okay, so I got it wrong,” she said.
“It was the wrong Orlando.”
The cold open featured a number of comical mix ups on Barbara’s part: Carrie Underwood?
Kerry Washington, Jacob (Chris Perfetti) clarifies.
Bobby Brown, Walter’s Melissa clarifies.
Watch the clip from Ralph’s interview with her costars above.
