*Quinta Brunson recently appeared on Hot Ones to eat hot wings and discuss her Emmy-winning sitcom “Abbott Elementary.”
“I think a comedy has to have an engine,” she said. “Workplace comedies, you need to be able to count on having an environment where there is a situation that would naturally arise every episode. Both I and Larry Willmore have been trying to crack a TSA comedy for the longest time so it all depends.”
Brunson plays elementary teacher Janine on the series and noted that the character purposely wears “bag wigs.”
“It looks bad on purpose. She’s a girl who doesn’t quite know what to do with her hair and wardrobe yet but she’s proud of herself regardless and that’s what I wanted people to take away with that kind of character.”
Brunson added, “Janine’s a character now who’s started to watch some YouTube videos… It’s important to have those things for all characters but especially like young, Black girl characters as well.”
Regarding Janine’s dating life with Gregory (Tyler James Williams), Brunson told Variety, “We’re putting a lot of faith in the audience. We’re not seeing Janine and Gregory talk to each other a ton in this premiere, but we trust the relationship that the audience knows they have.”
She added, “In my dating life, there’d be people I’d date, then not talk to for five months; then all of a sudden you spin the block with this person. I really try to make Janine and Gregory a realistic portrayal of dating in your 20s.”
Watch her full Hot Ones episode via the YouTube clip above.
Season 4 of “Abbott Elementary” debuts this fall.
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