Romance is in the Air (and the Studio) with "Grimm"'s Russell Hornsby

What makes a king out of a slave? Courage. What makes the flag on the mast to wave? Courage. What makes the elephant charge his tusk in a misty mist or a dusky dusk? What makes a muskrat guard his musk? Courage.

What's up, guys? Nicki Novac here in the Young Hollywood studio with Grim star Russell Hornsby. Hi. How are you doing? Do you want to sing for me? Like the body electric and celebrate the me yet to come?

Exactly what you just said. Yes. No, we before we start rolling, you are rolling. Uh yeah, you know, this. Don't try to understand them. Just roll them through and brand them.

Oh, Russell. Soon we'll be living high and wide. Thank you very much. I've heard your

Well, that was Barry Olvis. That was Barry. That was good.

You've got that baritone voice. Are you Are you a singer, aren't you? Or you

Yes. I I like singing, but I don't sing, you know. It's like I'm not a singer.

But what if you were called upon it for a role? I feel like you could pull it off.

I I definitely could. I could hold a tune down. And without auto tune. Really?

Yes, and you Very few can do that. Yes. So, Grim

Yes.

Is doing very well.

Yeah, we're we're having a good time. Looks like a human heart to me. That one looks like a liver.

I heard actually to prepare for this role, you read a lot about the Grim Brothers and their story and all these really dark stories from from the 1800s. Because these are not fairy tales.

Yes, they they they said they're a warning, sort of cautionary tales, you know, if if you will.

What was the darkest one? Like the creepiest thing you ever read?

The one Well, the one I liked the most is Rumplestiltskin. You know what I mean? I think like He locks the daughter in the thing. Yeah, he locks he locks the woman and says, you know, uh Well, no, she's she says, "I need to spend this I need to spend this straw into gold. Can you help me?" You know what I mean? He's like, "Yes, okay, I'll I'll spend the straw into gold, but you got to give me your first born." You know what I mean? So, he's sitting there, "Figure out the name," you know. And uh then I'll I'll free you, you know, from bondage, and, you know, But it's like Rumplestiltskin's kind of like a It's like a pimp or something, you know what I mean? It's just So, I mean, that's kind of spooky, you know what I mean?

So, which face are you going to have? Which animal are you going to be?

Um, I don't know what I I I'm still working on it. You know what I mean? I love uh

What would be your choice? What's the darkest animal that you can be?

Well, you know, there's that uh the like the troll that's under the stairs. You know what I mean? It's got horns coming out. You know what I mean? It's got this long face. You know, this this grave visage, you know. And they they they talk about strangers coming into town, you know what I mean? I'll come and I'll eat them up.

Creepy. Yes. You know, I'll This is why we love the show. It would be dark and spooky. So, I have a couple little questions for you. Okay. Growing up, what was your favorite fairy tale?

Uh Well, my favorite fairy tale, I It doesn't really relate to Grim. My favorite book when I was growing up was The Wizard of Oz. I can cite tune in verse The Wizard of Oz. I mean, it's like like, you know, you say, "Your Majesty, if you were king of the forest, you wouldn't be afraid of anything." "Not nobody." "Not no how." "Not even a rhinoceros?" "Impossorous." "Well, supposing you met an elephant?" "I'd wrap him up in solvent." "What if you met a rhinoceros?" "I'd show him who's king of the forest." "How?" Courage. What makes a king out of a slave? Courage. What makes the flag on the mast to wave? Courage. What makes the elephant charge his tusk in a misty mist or a dusky dusk? What makes a muskrat guard his musk? Courage. What makes the Sphinx the seventh wonder? Courage. What makes the dawn come up like thunder? What makes the hot and hot so hot? What puts the A in apricot? What if I got that I ain't got?

Do you want to hear my response to that? Yes. There's no place like home. There's no place like home. So, click your heels three times. Click your heels again. That was incredible. So, that so that was my favorite. What is the your favorite place you've been to in the world? Because I heard you're like a huge proponent of traveling.

Oh my gosh. Uh Italy. Venice, Italy. The food, both. The food. The food. I mean, I mean, it's Woo hoo. Divine.

What's your favorite? What's like the best meal you've ever had?

Uh just the simplicity of the spaghetti with my favorite that was it's um pesto, their pesto sauce. Was was divine. And you know, just the romance of being on the gondolas, you know what I mean, with with my wife and, you know, there, you know, I'm thinking like, "She's saying, "Stop! Don't do that!"" I'm like, "No, come on." And the guy's, "Sergio singing." "You know, You know,"

He's I feel like I don't even need to be here. You could just sing and dance and, you know, spew monologues and I'm sure somebody would bring pesto in for you.

Yes, and some bread and we have some some a soup of wine.

So, where are you? What was your most recent concert experience? Besides in here that we just had.

Wow. I haven't been to a concert in Oh, we went to uh my wife and we went to Earth, Wind and Fire. Uh last uh last summer. I mean, yeah, it was it was beautiful. Good time. Romantic. That's kind of romantic. Yeah. No, no, you know what you know what Earth, Wind and Fire is like That's sexy. That's freaky. You know what I mean? Like, you know, that that that makes you want to that makes you want to Ah.

I feel like I should leave and get your wife here on the couch instead. And which instrument would you master if you could?

Uh the saxophone. Because the thing is, first off, all musicians get chicks, right? But this but the sax players, man, those are

I'm telling you. You're all about the romance, mister, aren't you?

Yes. That is the most romantic instrument. It it it really is. That is for you. He caught it himself. See, I didn't even have to.

Russell, see, again, I don't even need to be here. Normally, I make the cats.

Okay, I got to adjust this because, you know, when you when you put the hat on, you got to You got to put it right, you know. You got to to the side just a little bit. Yeah, no, it's bent already. It's nice. I like rocking hats.

Well, I can tell. You do it very, very well.

Yeah, so, you know, he's got it cocked to the side. You got to coordinate. So, I'm all coordinated, you know what I mean? It's like little, you know, black, blue, swallow. I'm rolling. I'm rolling.

Well, Russell, thank you for tantalizing all of our senses here today at Young Hollywood. That was an absolute treat.

But then it's been a pleasure and a joy. Trust me. Thank you. And I I hope we'll do this again. Should we go I could go I could do a trumpet or a Come on. Hit me, baby.