Smokey Robinson Shares His Bucket List Item, Stevie Wonder and Martin Luther King Jr. Memories (Exclusive)

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Smokey Robinson still has things he wants to accomplish. ET's Kevin Frazier spoke to the 83-year-old singer, and Robinson revealed the last item on his bucket list.«If there's anything left on my bucket list, it would be that I would like to make a movie, a good movie,» he told ET. "… I'd like to be in a really good movie and be a character.«While Robinson hopes to play a character in a flick, lots of people want a Broadway show or a movie to be made about life, both of which „some people have approached me to do it.“Any potential project about his life, Robinson said, is „gonna be very candid.“»I might as well be candid.

I don't want to sugarcoat it… There's going to be my ups and my downs, and my positives and my negatives, and all that has to be included, if it's going to be real," he said. «I want it to be real, so people can get a good feeling of what my life has been and what it's like.»Robinson's life certainly has the makings for a movie, as he was an early Motown performer, after Berry Gordy founded the genre's namesake record company.«It was the gathering place, man.

Hitsville was our gathering place,» Robinson said of the recording studio. «It was the place that you went to first when you got back in town… Everybody's over there.

It was our hanging place. It wasn't just our workplace where we went and we recorded records and we did work-related stuff… it was our hanging place.» «It was unique.