By Mallory Mattingly
While on the red carpet for the new movie SKETCH, Terry Crews revealed a favorite childhood hobby that almost became his career.
“When you were feeling emotional as a kid, what was your creative outlet?” Movieguide®’s Kaelii Williams asked Crews and his wife, Rebecca, while at the premiere.
“For me, it was drawing,” Crews said. “I actually had an art scholarship before I had a football scholarship. I am an artist.”
“I had my portfolio in at Disney, at Dreamworks,” he revealed. “And then when TOY STORY came out, all the hand drawn animation went out the window and I started to act instead. I have such a respect for art and the ability to sketch and the way you see life. It’s amazing.”
For Rebecca, her creative outlet was music.
“I was a pianist, so I played piano and I would write songs and sing my little heart out on my piano at home,” she said.
Williams asked the couple who inspired their creativity when they were kids.
“I would say my mother,” Crews said. “My mother always told me, ‘You’re always an artist. Never forget that’s what you are.’ And that’s pretty much my big biggest inspiration.”
Rebecca said, “My mother as well. As well as my dad. He was a musician as well. The whole family, the grandparents, everybody sang, played something. But I would definitely say my mother, she was a singer and she made sure we took every acting, dance, music class. We watched the Grammys, we watched all the musicals. Like I grew up on the SOUND OF MUSIC.”
Creativity soars in Angel Studios’ SKETCH.
“When a young girl’s sketchbook falls into a strange pond, her drawings come to life — unpredictable, chaotic, and dangerously real,” its synopsis reads. “As the town unravels, she and her brother must track down the creatures before they leave permanent damage. Their father, racing to find them through the fallout, must navigate a town in crisis to reunite his family and stop the disaster they never meant to unleash.”
SKETCH is directed by Seth Worley, who has a slew of short films under his belt but hasn’t created anything like this before.
“I’ve made a movie that is 100 percent me, and I still can’t figure out how to describe it to people,” he admitted, per The Hollywood Reporter. “Executives, producers, and financiers would read this movie and either interpret it as THE BABADOOK if it were ‘inappropriately funny and warm’ or ‘GOOSEBUMPS if it were too good and weirdly dark.’ But to me, it’s INSIDE OUT meets JURASSIC PARK. It challenges stigmas surrounding grief and explores childhood emotions, the darker places they can go, and how we live our lives in the wake of trauma.”
“This movie is my childhood. This movie is for my kids. If I only get to make one movie in my life, this is the one. It’s weird, it’s thrilling, it’s funny, it’s deeply emotional, and hopefully, I’ve put enough of myself into it for you to find yourself in it, too,” he added.
Movieguide® praised SKETCH for how it tackles difficult topics like grief and holding a family together. Part of the review reads:
Overall, SKETCH is a funny and creative exploration of the way grief affects people differently, with a strong moral worldview stressing family and friendship. The father is devoted to his children and tries to help them deal with their mother’s death. Also, his children and their friend bond together and stick by each other. However, the movie has some magical thinking, foul language and violence. Also, SKETCH has many scary scenes that might frighten children. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for older children.
SKETCH releases in theaters across the country on Aug. 6.
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