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Don’t Underestimate How Much Sing Sing’s Clarence Maclin Knows About Shakespeare


In Sing Sing, the formerly incarcerated actor transports back in time, honoring a past version of himself.

And he undermines how seriously RTA’s leader, Brent Buell (Paul Raci), takes the program’s acting exercises as they prepare to put on the original time-travel comedy Breakin’ the Mummy’s Code. And Divine Eye’s version of Hamlet’s “to be or not to be” speech is one of the movie’s most riveting moments of performance, a turn simultaneously so world-weary, remorseful, and confident that he proves the transformational impact of RTA in one scene. It talks about your audition for RTA, and there’s a line that says, “Divine Eye has long dreadlocks and massive muscles and sings ‘Happy Birthday’ with showbiz pizzazz, throwing his arms out.” Do you remember that moment?

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