Interview with Robert Curtis Brown from the Premiere of "Guess Who"

"Guess Who" in a Nutshell: “It’s a wonderful story. It’s Bernie [Mac] and his wife celebrating a 25th wedding anniversary and I play Dante, their party planner who is pulling this big party off. I have a beautiful wife who is 6’2” in the movie. And all kinds of surprises happen with her. And Bernie’s daughter Theresa [played by Zoe Saldana] comes home and she brings home Ashton Kutcher and surprises everybody.”

On Researching His Role: “My mother was an interior decorator when I was growing up and so we had all kinds of very interesting characters that were coming in and out of the house and out of her business. And so, you know, we live in Hollywood so what can be weirder than living here? You see it all, you know? I’m just a student of life.”

Bringing Home Dates Parents Didn’t Approve Of: “When I was younger man I was so straight forward. No weird dates. My aunt, who is just a few years older than me, lived with us for a period of time. And there was one point where she brought home an African-American man and that was just a stunner in my neighborhood. It was a stunner. And then she was totally behind it. It was like totally cool. My parents were totally cool with it. When I think back I think, ‘That’s my Guess Who moment.’ That’s my childhood moment.”

Working with Funnyman Bernie Mac: “He’s fantastic. He and I are totally into baseball so we liked talking about baseball all the time, which is great. He had just done ‘Mr. 3000’ so he was doing the publicity for Mr. 3000, the publicity for ‘Ocean’s 12,’ shooting his own TV show, shooting this movie – I mean, it was insane. He was just up to his eyeballs. I don’t know how he did it.”

Talking Baseball with Bernie Mac: “We were talking about our childhood and who we loved as kids. We were both big fans of Roberto Clemente. You know, we grew up in the same baseball era, watching the 60s and 70s and loving all those guys.”

The Current Steroid Scandal: “Oh man. I think these home runs don’t count. I think they don’t count. It kills me because you look at guys like Hank Aaron and you look at guys like Babe Ruth and all the other guys who came before, who did it cleanly. I mean, you can say that the pitching was this and the pitching was that, and the ball and all that stuff, but once you start juicing up, that’s a whole different game.”

The Punishment Fitting the Crime: “That’s tough. I don’t know. I like the asterisk. I think the asterisk idea has to go on it. You have the record with an asterisk.”