Sir Purr
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Once he arrived at training camp, Burns knew he was going to be one of the first up to entertain the veterans. He latched onto the "Training Day" idea, but first had to make sure singing wasn’t a requirement.
“After the conditioning test, I asked Cam. I was like, ‘Do I have to sing?’ And he was like, ‘You can do whatever, just own it.’ I was like, ‘Alright, bet.’ So before dinner I got to my room, pulled up that YouTube clip and watched it like 50 times,” Burns said with a laugh.
When Newton got things started at the team meeting, Burns was ready. In fact, he volunteered to go first.
“Not nervous at all. I was confident with it,” he said. “If I was singing I would have probably been a little nervous, but I’m honestly a performer.”
At first, the audience didn’t seem to know what was happening. But Burns gradually had them in the palm of his hand.
“There were certain lines in the script where I started personalizing it and talking to certain people in the crowd. One time I pointed at Cam when I said something really aggressive and they all started to laugh,” Burns said.
“Then once I pulled out that little fake cigarette I had, it was over. It was over.”
Bravo, rookie. Bravo.