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Will Craig Robinson give us a dream cameo in 'The Paper' or a 'Hot Frosty' sequel?


LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 28: Craig Robinson attends Netflix's "In Your Dreams" premiere on October 28, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.  (Photo by Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Netflix)
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 28: Craig Robinson attends Netflix's "In Your Dreams" premiere on October 28, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Netflix)
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It would be a dream scenario for Craig Robinson to make an appearance in “The Paper,” the spin off of “The Office.”

But could it happen?

“I have not gotten that call, but your mouth to God’s ears,” he told us at the premiere for the Netflix animated adventure “In Your Dreams.”

What about a “Hot Frosty” sequel?

“You tell me,” he teased.

It was worth asking, but in the meantime, Craig is providing the voice for Baloney Tony, a beloved stuffed animal helping Stevie (Jolie Hoang-Rappaport) and Elliott (Elias Janssen) face their dreams and nightmares in “In Your Dreams.”

“He's Elliot's stuffed animal, and he doesn't get along that well with Stevie, but him and Elliot get along like this,” Craig explained. “Baloney Tony is silly. He's sarcastic. He can be very scared at times, and he shoots laser farts along with Elliot.”

In the movie, Stevie and Elliott are determined to find the Sandman to help save their family, and keep their mom and dad, voiced by Cristin Milioti and Simu Liu, together. But they face not only the topsy-turvy world of their dreams, but the villainous Nightmara, voiced by Gia Carides.

At the premiere, we had to ask the cast about the craziest dreams they’ve ever experienced.

“I'm driving, and I approach a bridge, but the bridge goes in the loop like a roller coaster. And I drive, I have to go upside down, and then I go down like into this water, but still on the road,” Craig Robinson recalled.

Elias Janssen remembered as a kid he had a strange one about Ursula from “The Little Mermaid” flying over him, while his onscreen big sister Jolie Hoang-Rappaport had a dream about being at the beach “but there was like, barbecue grills in the water, and they were all, like a bunch, and they were like bobbing in the water, and then I kind of just like waded through them and, like, floated on top of the barbecue grills.”

Gia Carides shared a “classic anxiety” dream. “I definitely have that recurring dream where I'm doing a play that I've done many years ago, and I know it really well, but in this dream, I’m doing it again for the first time after several years, and I think I'm good, because I know all the dialogue. And then it's curtain up five minutes, and I suddenly panic and I cannot remember the first line.”

The film’s director, Alex Woo, had a really strange dream about his parents being lobsters that kind of turned into a nightmare. “I would be in the kitchen, cooking, and then I would cook them, unknowingly, and they were trying to tell me where your parents but I don't understand lobster,” he said.

“In Your Dreams” is available now on Netflix.

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