Sheryl Lee Ralph Recalls Filming “Abbott Elementary”'s Halloween Episode in 107-Degree Heat (Exclusive)

The actress says she was "enveloped in fur" while filming the upcoming special, telling PEOPLE and Entertainment Weekly at the 2024 Emmys it was "hot, hot, hot"

Sheryl Lee Ralph is giving fans the inside scoop on Abbott Elementary's highly anticipated Halloween special.

Speaking with PEOPLE and Entertainment Weekly at the 76th annual Primetime Emmy Awards Red Carpet Live show, the actress — who plays Barbra Howard on the hit sitcom — notes that despite the episode giving a fall vibe, the weather while filming was quite the opposite.

"Let me just say, it was hot, hot, hot," Ralph, 67, recalls, "It was 107 degrees and I was enveloped in fur."

Despite the uncomfortable working conditions, the star admits that the product of their work amounted to "such a funny episode."

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"We're probably six episodes in, and I cannot tell you just how funny they are. Our writers are amazing, and our director-producer, Randall Einhorn, who is also nominated this year, everybody just does such an incredible job on the show. I'm very happy."

The Halloween special isn't all that Abbott Elementary fans have to look forward to coming up, as Ralph told PEOPLE’s Breanne L. Heldman during a Sept. 12 panel that the show's other upcoming highly-awaited moment, a crossover episode with a yet-to-be-named mystery show, "is going to be killer" as well.

"And I'm not going to say another word about it," she teased.

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Ralph further notes to PEOPLE at the Emmys red carpet that she and her castmates struggle to not break character while filming the show's hilarious scenes.

"There's sometimes moments that one of us do something, we cannot hold it in," she says. "And we just have to let it out. And we hoped that we held it in long enough so that we don't have to re do it but very often everybody will crack up."

"I hold it in the most, though," she quips.

Season 4 of Abbott Elementary will premiere on Oct. 9, 2024, at 9:30 pm EST on ABC.

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