[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for The Masked Singer Season 13 Episode 10 “The Lucky 6: Merging of the Masks.”]
After which there have been 5. The Masked Singer is getting nearer to the reveal of the Season 13 winner.
Within the Wednesday, April 16, episode, the “Fortunate 6” — Boogie Woogie, Coral, Mad Scientist, Nessy, Paparazzo, and Pearl — took to the stage once more in hopes of impressing sufficient to proceed on. However one needed to go dwelling, and it was Paparazzo, who was revealed to be actor Matthew Lawrence. (His brother, Joey Lawrence, competed because the Walrus in Season 8.)
Under, Lawrence opens up about his time on the present.
“I used to be taking it very severely, however I nonetheless needed to have enjoyable with it, proper? You may’t go too severe for your self once you’re dressed like that.”
What made you say sure? Did you have got any hesitations?
Matthew Lawrence: Oh my gosh, yeah. I’ve two form of fears. I’ve received a worry of heights and I received a worry of singing on stage as a result of I had a horrible expertise auditioning for a Broadway present in entrance of the reside viewers and the reside viewers was full of faces that I knew, and I’ll be straight about it. I didn’t do the prep that I wanted to. I ought to have been rehearsing with a pianist for not less than every week. I simply had a observe that I used to be singing to. And I get on stage and the pianist begins enjoying like a piano participant would do, begins enjoying a number of the harmonies I had no thought have been within the track. I froze up, couldn’t sing. I actually walked off stage. It was one of many worst auditions of my life, and since then, I’ve all the time form of had this worry.
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So when The Masked Singer referred to as, I used to be like, there isn’t a approach. After which my buddies round me have been like, “You understand, you get to put on a masks. Perhaps that is a kind of moments the place you will get over your worry as a result of folks actually don’t comprehend it’s you.” And I used to be like, “You understand what? That is that interval in my life the place I’ve mentioned there’s no worry anymore, and I’m attending to that time in life the place I don’t take probabilities, I may not get these probabilities ever once more.” So it was like, I’m going to start out saying sure to issues and particularly issues that I worry, and that was this. In order that’s the explanation why I did it.
Which Broadway present and track?
Effectively, it was for Cry Child, the Johnny Depp film, the variation of that. Clearly, I don’t even know in the event that they made it or not. I don’t know what occurred to that present. I actually blacked it out of my thoughts. However it was for that. They have been anticipating me to get it. They flew me out. They don’t do this for Broadway. They flew me out. They put me up, and it was an important alternative and yeah, it’s one of many few that I’ve actually bombed.
Let’s discuss that Paparazzo costume.
Effectively, in addition to the scale 18 shoe and the 30 pound cowl that had a rod that went down my again, so there was no motion principally — it was robust. And singing by that after which not seeing something, there’s choreography. I used to be like, guys, I can’t. So, I needed to get the dancers to physique examine me into place, and it was hilarious. It was nearly like a rolling ball uncontrolled on stage, and also you’re identical to, oh, I simply received to remain on my ft. It was enjoyable.
What went into your track selections?
They have been form of random. The present requested you to place in these songs that you simply wish to sing, and I sung not one of the songs that I put in. As a result of they’d these theme nights, so you bought to choose a track inside the theme, after which different folks need songs, so that you simply type of get fortunate. The primary track, [“The Door” by] Teddy Swims, that was one of many artists that I put that I actually like. However I didn’t decide that track, clearly, as a result of once more, a number of these songs have been sung on the present and you may’t re-sing songs. So the Teddy Swims songs was an artist that I picked, however outdoors of that, none of these songs I picked actually. They have been simply form of like, that is type of what’s obtainable to sing. After which I might maneuver between one or two songs form of a factor.
Did you have got any songs in thoughts in case you continued on that you simply actually needed to do or possibly a style due to the theme nights?
Completely. Now they’ve received me. I’ve received the bug now. Sure. Now each time I hear a track, I’m like, “That’s the track I ought to have sang on Masked Singer!” [Laughs] So yeah, I imply, there’s tons of songs I wish to sing on that present now.
Discuss concerning the panelists’ guesses, as a result of Jenny McCarthy Wahlberg did determine you out.
Sure. I don’t understand how anyone didn’t determine — it was apparent to me. I used to be like, they’re going to know the minute I stroll on the market. I don’t know. I assumed the clues have been actually on the nostril, however that makes it enjoyable, I suppose.
Did you come into this anticipating anybody particular from the panel to determine you out?
No. I actually got here into this blind. I hadn’t actually watched the present. I’d solely seen the social clips like a number of issues as of late. We don’t actually sit by the lengthy kind anymore, so I’d seen a bunch of social clips, so I form of received the gist. However no, I had actually no preconceived notions in any respect about what this was going to be aside from I had talked to my older brother, Joe, who had accomplished one, however he solely did one evening. He solely did a shock ‘90s evening after which exited, so he didn’t get the total expertise. So I actually didn’t know.
Yeah, I used to be going to ask, did you get any recommendation from him?
Yeah, completely. He advised me to not sing this one track, and he was proper. [Laughs] He was proper. However I’m not going to say which.
Who else knew that you simply have been doing this?
You’re not allowed to inform anyone. You actually signal authorized paperwork to not inform anyone. So outdoors of clearly my brothers and my mother and my dad and my girlfriend, no person knew. That’s it.
What are you going to remove from your complete expertise?
Once more, that I feel it’s actually necessary, generally we have now these fears and these items in our thoughts that develop to such a big scale, and it’s actually necessary to reduce that and recover from your fears and actually type go on the market. It may be actually enjoyable. And I’ll let you know, there was one second, the one second that I actually had on that stage the place all that form of melted away was the “Hallelujah” track, and that was one of many one moments the place I truly felt for a second that I used to be singing to an viewers on stage and it was in concord. I used to be in concord with the viewers. I felt it. I felt possibly what an artist who performs on stage like that appears like, and it’s an incredible feeling. It’s very comparable or comparable once you’re filming an enormous comedy scene, you get an enormous snicker. You get that reference to the viewers. It’s a beautiful expertise. I might undoubtedly do it once more. I liked the truth that I received over it. I received over that worry. It’s superior.
Yeah, that “Hallelujah” efficiency was so good.
Oh, thanks. Effectively, I feel it’s simply because it simply associated as a result of I used to be being natural. I wasn’t fascinated with the track. It was the one time I truly simply sang.
What shocked you probably the most about being on the present?
The isolation. You’re like this clouded determine within the mist, and persons are ushering you round and also you’re all cloaked on a regular basis. You’re actually cloaked from the time you go into your little change room to anyplace. For those who go away that change room, you’re cloaked and you bought folks round you, and that was loopy. It’s not like celebrity-ism that I used to be experiencing. It was nearly like some sci-fi villain or one thing. It was very odd. It was a really attention-grabbing expertise, however it was enjoyable. It was actually cool.
Lots of people discuss concerning the isolation. I really feel prefer it’s one thing you’ll be able to’t perceive till you expertise it.
It’s wild. You’re actually carrying a sweater that claims, don’t discuss to me. That’s loopy. I really like interacting with folks, particularly the crew. In order that was a tricky half for me. And I did get to bond with a couple of of the crew members, which was nice, however I might’ve liked to been in a position to simply be on the market with the crew hanging out and speaking, however you simply can’t do it.
So are you going to do some singing now sooner or later?
Who is aware of? Keep tuned. We’ll see. Perhaps. Hey, if a chance, like I mentioned, I’m going to say sure, so we’ll see. I don’t know.
The Masked Singer, Wednesdays, 8/7c, Fox