YOUNG SHELDON star Annie Potts joined the THE JENNIFER HUDSON SHOW, where she opened up about singing with Grammy-award-winning artist Reba McEntire.
Per PEOPLE, “Potts recalled the season 4 episode ‘A Pager, a Club and a Cranky Bag of Wrinkles,’ in which MeeMaw (Potts) discovers June Ballard (McEntire) has trouble carrying a tune while crooning to Patsy Cline’s poignant song ‘Crazy’ and the pair then show off their off-key vocal stylings by singing ‘Islands in the Stream’ during karaoke.”
“The funny thing is they [the show’s writers] wrote [Reba’s] part so that…the idea was that she couldn’t sing,” Potts said.
“She sang off-key, which, if you’re a really good singer, it is very difficult to sing off-key,” she added. “But she just like—I don’t know—went up or down a fifth and stayed there. And it was an astonishing thing.”
“I mean just a measure of how good she is of course. Funny and delightful and sweet and beautiful,” Potts said of McEntire.
The actress also shared what it’s like to work with a cast much younger than her.
“They are like my practice grandchildren before I had grandchildren. They were good starter kids,” she said.
YOUNG SHELDON just wrapped filming the seventh and final season last week.
“Today was our last day of filming @YoungSheldonCBS,” lead Iain Armitage wrote on Instagram. “What a joy, honor and a privilege.”
As cast members contemplate what souvenirs they want to take, Potts is grateful for the memories.
“It’s just incredible that I was walking around the set the other day thinking, oh, that, and then I thought, no, it’s the memories. It’s not an object,” she said. “It’s the feelings that are treasures.”
YOUNG SHELDON series finale will air on CBS on Thursday, May 16.
CBS sitcom YOUNG SHELDON has announced its final season.
The BIG BANG THEORY prequel will return for season 7 on Feb. 15. The season finale will air on May 16.
Variety reported that the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes resulted in a shorter season than originally planned.
“The season will be shorter than those before it due to the truncated nature of the 2023-2024 scripted broadcast season caused by the writer and actors’ strikes that shutdown Hollywood productions for nearly six months,” Variety stated.
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