Brielle Armstrong is a junior at Gibson Southern High School. She is part of the Gibson Southern Theatre Department, having performed in all their productions since her freshman year. She is also part of ITS Troop #5623 and the Sunshine Society. You can hear Brielle singing the national anthem at home basketball and volleyball games.
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Southerner: What are some of your hidden talents? How did you realize you had them?
Armstrong: “One of my hidden talents is I can throw a piece of candy in the air and catch it in my mouth every single time. You know how your friends would just throw things at you and be like, ‘Oh see if you can catch it?’ and I just did it. I just started doing it on my own. It’s funny you asked that because it’s an inside joke between me and my friends.”
Southerner: If you had to choose one song to listen to for the rest of your life, what would you choose?
Armstrong: “That’s so hard. My music taste is so wild. I’d probably say ‘Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)’ by Edison Lighthouse because it is a fun little bop. It’s just fun, and I don’t think I’ll ever get tired of it. It’s like an old song.”
Southerner: What are some of your greatest pet peeves?
Armstrong: “Oh my God! When people scratch their nails on a slick material. It’s like nails on a chalkboard for me. It’s terrible. I hate it.”
Southerner: Have you ever met anyone famous?
Armstrong: “Well, I met Lin Manuel Miranda in New York City at one of his bookstores that he owns. He wasn’t supposed to be there that day, but he was, so that was really cool. He’s really big in theater and he wrote ‘Hamilton’ and he wrote the new ‘Little Mermaid’ and ‘Encanto.’ He was also in ‘Hamilton’ and he’s just huge. It’s crazy.”
Southerner: What is your favorite season?
Armstrong: “Fall because it’s the perfect temperatures, the leaves are so pretty and the weather is absolutely insane. My birthday is in October during that season, and Halloween is my favorite holiday.”
Southerner: What is your favorite type of foreign food and where is your favorite place to get it?
Armstrong: “I’d probably say chicken and fried rice or something, and I would say Zuki is my favorite place to get chicken fried rice from.”
Southerner: What is one thing on your bucket list?
Armstrong: “I would like to go skydiving once in my life. I think that it would be fun. I mean, having a person attached to you on your back would be kind of weird, but like just going down from the sky, just seeing the whole world is so cool. It would be so much fun.”
Southerner: What do you want to be when you grow up and why?
Armstrong: “I want to be a psychiatrist. I want to prescribe medicine and talk to people. I would have to go through 12 years of college, and I want to get money. I want to be a psychiatrist because I want to help teenagers and younger kids try to figure out mental health. I feel like it is a health that we don’t talk about enough, and it needs to be talked about more, especially now.”
Southerner: Out of all the theater productions you’ve been in, what is your favorite you’ve ever done?
Armstrong: “I’m going to say ‘Big Fish’ because the storyline of that show was just extremely heartfelt to me. The people in that show were also fantastic. I loved working with everybody there, and it was one of the first shows I ever got in [and] kind of [received] a bigger part, so I was able to be in that production more, and it was fantastic. I loved the storyline of it, and it was great to try and open people’s minds up to a new show they haven’t heard or seen before.”
Southerner: What is your favorite vacation ever?
Armstrong: “When I was nine, I went on a cruise to the Bahamas. That was insane. We went to the Bahamas and Disney World, all in a two-week span. It was just so filled with everything. It was crazy and so much fun.”
Southerner: Apple or Android?
Armstrong: “Apple but I’m not a hater on Android. But, Apple, just because I think that Apple is just so cool and just so high-tech.”
Southerner: If you could watch only one TV show forever, what would it be?
Armstrong: “Probably ‘Adventures In Babysitting,’ like the old one. Like the 1990 one. It is top tier.”
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