She was super-confident that she’d be able to fake-cry for creator Jenna Bans and director Dean Parisot during the pilot process…until she couldn’t.
As Good Girls’ Ruby Hill, Retta has a larger emotional spectrum to pull from.
Actress and stand-up star Retta made a career out of making people laugh and cheer, sometimes while crafting a catchphrase that comes back to haunt her later in life.
Here’s how she told it to the press at the TCA winter tour.