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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I think that you're spot on. You're in love with her on and off camera. She's amazing. We worked on For Colored Girls in 2010, and this was our second time working together because between that time she had done so much, I wanted to find something worthy of her. This role, she's playing Charity Adams, who led these women, who was 26 years old at the time.
She was 26 years old, leading 855 women. Carrie and I were rehearsing. All of these women, the spirit of them were with us through the whole thing. When I was finding different sets, I would look at the pictures and look at the historic references like this is the exact place. It was like so weird.
But she and I were rehearsing in a dressing room and there's a knock on the door and it is the transportation guy. And he comes up, he says, I want to show you something. I got this trunk I want you to see. So we come out and I have this on video. The transportation guy was a World War II veteran.
buff and he would go to these auctions and buy all these world war ii materials so he brings his trunk and he puts it at our feet it is charity adams trunk no no it's not yeah with her uniform in it her tulip tree a letter in it we both got chills oh my god all these moments of these women letting us know that they were there and they wanted this that feels impossible special spiritual
Yeah. And for them to do it and do it well. Another challenge was the stories about the mail. Like, how do you tell a story about the mail? Thank you. If I'm you, I'm like, I don't know, man, where's the big explosion with the mail?
And Kerry was the same way. It's like, how do you tell a story about the mail? But I think that we discount what the mail meant then, because there was no email. There were no text messages. Mail was life. And you had all these soldiers fighting and they hadn't gotten mail in months because of the Battle of the Bulge and the moving around so much. So the morale was at an all time low.
And you had hangers full of 17 million pieces of mail. That needed to get to the soldiers to boost their morale and take them through the end of the war.
It's impossible because of the vermin who had eaten through a lot of the packages. You couldn't make out the names from the rain and the weather. The World War II of it all. The World War II of it all, yeah. And this impossible sorting task where they had just thrown all this mail into these hangers. Yeah, where do you start with 17 million pieces of fucking mail?
Yeah. In the movie, he says, step aside, gal. And the gas from black women in the theater was like, ooh. So, yeah, gal is offensive. It's like boy calling a black man a boy.
I tell you, the thing that warms my soul the most is the understanding that it was once a Confederate Army base where there were soldiers plotting and planning on how to keep 3.9 million Negroes enslaved. And now that land being owned by me, how great is this country that that could happen? So if that could happen for me, I don't care who you are, where you come from.
America is an incredible place to just be and dream and live and grow. And as many problems as we have as a country, we are still a great nation that when we galvanize and come together, we can do anything.
Yeah, for sure. Nowhere else in the world. But the fact that it's tangible, does that feel special? It does. My father would build houses. He was a subcontractor and he would get paid his $800 and he would be so happy. Oh, I got my money. But I watched a guy that he sold the house, usually a white man, sell the house for $80,000. And I always wondered, why won't you do that?
But looking at it from this point of view, I realized the burden of being the man who owns the house. I don't have any partners. I don't have shareholders. So when that $100,000 light bill is due, I've got to pay it. That $180 plus million in payroll for all the actors and everybody, I've got to pay that every year. So I understand the blessing of it. I also understand the burden of it.
And I also understand the exhaustion of it all. But I'm grateful for it.
The journals, yeah. And I get that. And every time I'm driving through the gates, I am reminded of how profound and wonderful this moment is, especially because there's so many people who wanted to do it. I can't tell you the last person who developed a studio of this magnitude. You think about Disney and Warner Brothers. So to do it at this time and at this level has really, really been profound.
But every time I drive in the gates, this is God's honest truth. When I'm tired, when I'm exhausted, when I'm just like, OK, how much longer can you carry this? I'm reminded of that. All the people who wanted to do it, for some reason, it fell on me to do. And also watching people come through the gates who had never had a shot in this business makes me go. You can go a little further. Yeah.
Listen, at 55? Yeah. I'm going to be 70 soon. In two seconds. That's the way I look at it. Right. 55 came so quickly. I'm just like, what does the next 15 years look like while I'm still able to run up and down the stairs and enjoy my life? What does that look like? And how much of this... beautiful gift of the studio is going to be a blessing to that or a hindrance to it. Right.
Are you the studio owner? No, no, I'm not that guy. I respect everybody's privacy and what they're doing. I'll wait. If I get invited by the director, like Ryan invited me on the last day to set, I thought that was really great.
Yeah.
I'm finally at a place where I've got the right team in place to run it so I can step back a lot. And as soon as I got there and was like, OK, great, we're good. Here comes AI. Yeah. It's like you might want to rethink everything you're thinking here.
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