Tyler Perry
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187 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Feb 2025
Tyler Perry’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Were they airing twice a week? I don't know how they were airing. All I know is I was working my ass off. It took me nine months to shoot all 100. I would shoot two or three episodes a day. Oh, my God. Oh, my Lord. But all of that was because of the situation I was in. Right. The economics demanded. How do I shoot this quickly? Because they're not giving me the money. How do you make this work?
Even now when I'm doing movies, I'll shoot a movie in five days, seven days, 18 days. Oh, my God. Because when I'm talking to the DP, unless there are specific shots that we want at a specific time of day, I'm like, listen, with all the digital stuff that we can do today with lighting, make this beautiful and let's figure out how we do it.
I've worked with some amazing DPs who have found the way to do it. Jazzman's Blues, which is on Netflix, was the first movie I ever wrote 28 years ago now. It is the first time I ever fell in love with filmmaking and I just filmed it in 22.
I'm talking about Oprah. Yeah. The original Queen Bee. How is she Queen Bee? Oh, you're talking about Oprah. Okay. Got it. Oh, you thought I was talking. See, you were right to point this out. Exactly.
Yeah, it is.
It was tricky, but we were determined to prove that we could work together and make it happen and the friendship wouldn't suffer.
Definitely had to keep it as a priority. And there were times when it got tough.
You guys have opposing interests all the time. Even with Oprah, yeah, it got tough. But what we realized and both understood is how important the friendship is to each of us.
How does this come your way? I got a call from Nicole Avant, who was coming off the tragedy of her mother being murdered here in L.A. Eighty something year old woman is at home in the evening and some gangbanger breaks into the house in Truesdale.
Yeah. And her father, Clarence Avon, who was known as the godfather, he and Quincy Jones were such mentors. Great doc on him.
Who you're talking about? That Nicole. She's like, Tyler, I really feel like you should do this movie, the 6888. My mother and I feel like you should do it. Our mother passed. Like, I feel like my mother wants you to do this. And I thought, whoa, I've never heard this story. So she sends me this sizzle reel from Carrie Selig and Peter Guber, executive producer on the show.
And I saw the sizzle reel about 855 black women in World War II. I'm like, who knew? Yeah, yeah. What 855? Wait, 855 black women were in Europe in World War II as a part of the war effort? I thought, you're kidding me, right? She's like, no, this is real. And there are four or five surviving members. I said, where? So there were two that were really with it.
There was one woman, her name is Lena King. She died this year. She was 99. I'm like, I'm getting on a plane. I'm going to see her right now because she's 99. I want to sit and talk to her before I start this script. And I walk into her house. I don't know what to expect. She's 99. I'm thinking she's going to be a a wheelchair. What's her memory going to be like?
This woman comes down the stairs, her lipstick done, her hair and makeup. Mr. Perry, it's a pleasure to meet you. She was still driving. She was still going out dancing with her friends. Her memory was as sharp as ever. Wow. So I sit down and I ask her, I was like, so I know you were a part of the 6888. Tell me about it. What made you go? And emotion, eyes welled up with water.
77 years, she goes back and she tells me about a young Jewish boy named Abram, who was a very close friend.
Oh, wow. Tell that story. It's so good. She's telling me about this young man named Abram who died in war. He wanted to go and do something for the war and fight Hitler. She was so emotional because he'd only been there a few weeks. And all of that emotion came back to her in that moment. I saw it in her eyes. I was like, this is the way in to the movie. This is the story.
She's telling me what happened and how much she loved him.
I would say about 80 or 90% of what you see in the movie is factual. I had to take some liberties, but a lot of it's factual. The things she was sharing with me and her memory was sharp. Like you could look at her face and see that she could almost smell the moments and the memories that she was talking to me. Two weeks later, I had a script. I sent it to Nicole. I was like, listen here.
And they're like, you're kidding me. We read it, tweaked it, worked on it and started filming.
1944.
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