[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for The Masked Singer Season 13 premiere “Lucky Season 13: Group A Premiere.”]
The Masked Singer returned for its fortunate thirteenth season with a brand new group of costumed celebrities hoping to make it to the finale and take house the Golden Masks Trophy. And, after all, straight away, one was despatched house.
After performing “SexyBack” by Justin Timberlake, Honey Pot was, sadly, the one eradicated, and below the masks was comic and actor Cedric the Entertainer (The Neighborhood). “I had my huge outfit on. I had a few dance strikes. I used to be somewhat nervous in that, attempting to bop, stumbled a few instances,” he admits. “I believed I used to be going to wipe out.” Beneath, he opens up extra about his expertise.
Speak about saying sure to doing The Masked Singer. Did you will have any hesitations?
Cedric the Entertainer: It did take a short time. I used to be requested a pair years in a row. It was a kind of issues that you simply see the competitors, the extent of the competitors persons are actually going for on there, you’re like, “No, man.”
Speak about that costume. What appealed to you about it?
It was enjoyable to be inside one however [there was] the scale of it, the massive scope. It was enjoyable to choose this character that could possibly be lovable and enjoyable and dancing round. So the boots have been actually excessive and so that you look sort of trendy [but it affects] your flexibility, your knees, you bought the load round your head.
What went into your tune alternative?
The selection got here from the studio. They preferred that tune. That was the one which was the enjoyable. I wished to do some previous blues tune. I simply was actually attempting to throw the gang off and they also have been like, “You’re somewhat too inside together with your selections.” It ended up being a enjoyable tune.
Talking of what you wished to carry out, did you will have any particular songs in thoughts that you simply wished to do when you’d continued on?
Yeah, if I continued, my fundamental alternative was — I simply watched the Luther Vandross documentary on CNN and I wished to a Luther tune or somewhat extra of a ballad like that or from the ‘70s, issues I felt like actually landed in my vary.
Discuss concerning the panelists’ guesses. Ken Jeong was the primary to determine you out.
Yeah, that was my largest concern. I’ve relationships with everyone, from Nick [Cannon] to Robin Thicke, we hang around generally. Ken I’ve seen on many events, and Rita Ora. So I used to be stunned. Robin sort of talked about that he thought it could be me, then when Ken was like, ‘Nah, that is my man.’ In order that was certainly one of my largest issues. I needed to be cautious simply speaking with my common voice or I imply they’d alter my voice, but it surely was a kind of issues the place simply ensuring that no person may inform it was me in any sort of regular means. I didn’t get to do my actual cool dance strikes, which I believe additionally threw folks off as a result of usually I’m somewhat lighter on my ft.
Additionally when folks consider comedy, they after all consider you.
And honey, simply as quickly as you see honey.
What are you going to remove from your complete expertise?
I believe it’s simply enjoyable. The electrical vitality within the studio is all the time nice. The panelists are having a good time there. The most important factor I assume for me is wishing I may have stayed round at the very least another week to do a tune that I felt like I may have simply actually nailed.
What stunned you essentially the most about being on the present?
I believe that that top stage of secrecy. It’s intense. The second you pull up, you possibly can’t even get out the automobile with out being masked out, blacked out. No one will get to know who you might be apart from the costume makers and the people who find themselves doing all your audio. However for essentially the most half you might be hidden from that entire crew of individuals, everyone doing anyone else’s costume or anything, they don’t get to see who’s over there. So I used to be stunned that it was that intense. Even while you go to lunch, they create you your lunch, you keep in your trailer, the whole lot is prime secret.
The Masked Singer, Wednesdays, 8/7c, Fox
