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Chicago’s Craig Robinson <\/a>lent his voice to the new animated adventure “In Your Dreams,” as the toy giraffe, Baloney Tony.<\/p>\n That comical critter joins a brother and sister as they explore a fantasy world to save their family.<\/p>\n The Whitney Young graduate recently talked about bringing his sense of humor to the movie for kids and grownups alike.<\/p>\n “I love the animation. I love that I get to act a complete fool in it. And it’s just so much fun. It’s good for the soul,” Robinson said. “You go in; you’re going to, you can be in your pajamas if you want. You go in there. You’re solo. You get a lot of chances to try different things and, you know, really, really hone in and figure out who that character is.”<\/p>\n Robinson said he had a wild imagination when he was younger, but he wasn’t sure if he could’ve pictured how his life has turned out.<\/p>\n “I don’t think I imagine like it. But what I imagine, I wanted to be Gary Coleman at one point. I use to like ‘Diff’rent Strokes,’ and I was going. I had a part in my head,” he said.<\/p>\n Robinson said he still pinches himself sometimes to realize this is his life.<\/p>\n “All the time, yeah, yeah, it was just going to the Bulls game last night courtside. I had took my father, you know. I got a jersey. It is really surreal,” he said. “You know, Chicago, I’m Chicago through and through. So it’s got to show up some kind of way. I’m sure there’s a percentage in everything I do.”<\/p>\n Robinson started out as a music teacher. Music is important to him, and he still has a band.<\/p>\n “The Nasty Delicious, if you eat something so good, you make a face. Like it’s nice. You know, that’s exactly what it is, because when we get to cooking and playing, ah,” Robinson said.<\/p>\n He loves to come back to Chicago.<\/p>\n “Chicago, thank you for making me who I am. So, I appreciate it. And thank you for keeping me lifted up, this song. And I hope you check out the movie,” Robinson said.<\/p>\n “In Your Dreams” is now streaming on Netflix.<\/p>\n Robinson believes the Chicago weather prepared him for the difficulties of show business. He says if you can survive the winter, you can get through anything.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chicago’s Craig Robinson lent his voice to the new animated adventure “In Your Dreams,” as the toy giraffe, Baloney Tony. That comical critter joins a brother and sister as they explore a fantasy world to save their family. ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24\/7. Click here to watch The Whitney Young graduate recently talked about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2163123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[391668,308694,359053,415089,415090],"class_list":["post-2163122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-abc7-chicago","tag-chicago","tag-craig-robinson","tag-gary-coleman","tag-whitney-young"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Chicago-native-Craig-Robinson-lends-voice-to-new-movie-In.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2163122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2163124,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2163122\/revisions\/2163124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2163123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2163122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2163122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2163122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24\/7. Click here to watch<\/a><\/h3>\n