Justin Cunningham Talks Taking It All Off For ‘Grand Crew’

It’s no secret that NBC’s “Grand Crew” holds a particular place in our hearts…

Our Sr. Content material Director Janeé Bolden spoke with “Grand Crew” stars Grasie Mercedes and Justin Cunningham concerning the NBC sitcom and realized from the pair all about how tough it may be to maintain a straight face whereas taking pictures with so many humorous individuals.

“For me, I really feel like a few of my scenes with Nicole, oh my goodness, it was so laborious to maintain a straight face,” Grasie Mercedes instructed BOSSIP. “And Carl too. The wine, the scene the place I shot with Carl with the white outfit, that was a tough scene for any of us to maintain from laughing, that was the toughest scene to not escape laughing. They ended up utilizing considered one of my faces and that was me making an attempt with all my would possibly to not snicker… For me, Nicole and Carl are positively the toughest to maintain a straight face.”

“Yeah, Nicole and Carl, effectively everyone for me,” Justin Cunningham admitted. “I break at the whole lot. In that wine scene they minimize away from me so many occasions as a result of I used to be actually laughing and smiling. That was a very cool shoot for me as a result of we shot in on my birthday they usually bought me little truffles and stuff. I’ve actually good reminiscences of that day as a result of that was one of many funniest scenes that I’ve ever been a part of and it was my birthday.”

Justin additionally opened up about his anxiousness and the way the episodes of “Grand Crew” coping with remedy have actually spoken to him.

“I endure from extreme anxiousness, so I’m looking for methods to work by means of and that’s one thing we bought an incredible alternative to spotlight, self-care and remedy and the way it’s helpful,” Justin instructed BOSSIP.

Cunningham instructed BOSSIP his nerves have even result in him holding again from watching the present because it airs on TV.

“For me watching it because it comes out it provides me an excessive amount of anxiousness,” Justin Cunningham instructed BOSSIP. “So I’ve to come back again a couple of days later and watch it. I’m nonetheless type of processing that we went out and did this factor and I’m on TV some place. It’s a really distinctive expertise.”

Paradoxically, these nerves didn’t maintain Justin from taking pictures a nude scene for the present — on his first day again on set following the pilot shoot at that!

“We shot the pilot virtually a yr prior, in order that nude scene was my first scene again. Once I bought the script it was like, ‘Okay in order that’s what I’m doing. Alright, I’m occurring a weight loss plan and hitting the gymnasium laborious!’ No I’m kidding, I’m snug with my physique. I didn’t actually really feel something about it. I actually felt dangerous for Carl as a result of he needed to stand there whereas they had been getting the shot collectively and I’m being all methodology, really making an attempt to cry whereas I’m there bare and Carl simply needed to stand there me. He’s like wanting up and searching away.

“I want I used to be there!” Grasie Mercedes interjected, laughing.

“My household is one other story,” Cunningham continued. “We’re from the South in order that they had been like, ‘I don’t perceive why they’d you bare up in there. That’s how they responded and I simply ‘Delete!’ They had been shocked I ought to say.”

“Grand Crew” airs Tuesdays at 8:30 pm EST/PST on NBC.