The result: The faith-filled Barbara revealed her holier-than-thou side.
“‘You could have called me, you could have talked to me, but it was a secret.
Oh, you’re feeling a certain way about yourself and you didn’t share it with me?’
Sheryl Lee Ralph, Lisa Ann Walter, Chris Perfetti, and Quinta Brunson on ‘Abbott Elementary’.Gilles Mingasson/Disney
I think Barbara was a bit stung by that, and she was a little petty.”
She, of course, eventually got over it and they made up.
I get to share my talent.
Sheryl Lee Ralph on ‘Abbott Elementary’ season 3.Gilles Mingasson/Disney
I get to show what I am very good at.
They give me comedy and they give me drama," Ralph says of her work onAbbott.
“It has been written for me in a way that my character doesn’t have one note.
Sheryl Lee Ralph on ‘Abbott Elementary’ season 3.Gilles Mingasson/Disney
And it was so funny.
“So now this season they’ve got me doing some stuff.
And I said, ‘Why me?’
And the person turned around and they said, ‘Because it’s funny.’
And I was like, ‘Yeah, you’re right.
I’m on a comedy.
It’s a comedy.
Yeah, it’s funny.'”
She may be returning to the world of another comedy.
Or, would she be a completely new character?
“In the words of somebody in great entertainment said, ‘This is entertainment.
It can be anything we want,'” she proclaims.
“You might just look like somebody in her past.
You might be Rita’s mom who has now discovered herself and is out singing.
It can be anything they want it to be.
My money’s on her.”
Listen to Ralph’s full interview onThe Awardistpodcast, below.
