Tyler Perryis ready to let go of the iconic tough-talking grandmother he introduced to the world almost 20 years ago.
When Smith asked Perry if he was retiring the character, the director laughed and said, “It’s time for me to kill that old bitch, I’m tired, man! I’m tired.”
Perry revealed he completed the upcoming filmA Madea Family Funeraltwo years ago but “didn’t want to go from [Boo! A Madea Halloween] to [Boo 2! A Madea Halloween] to another Madea [movie] so I putAcrimonyin front of it.”
The star said he then wrote and filmed the upcomingTiffany HaddishfilmNobody’s Fooland will releaseA Madea Family Funeralnext year.
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While fans may miss seeing Madea on the big screen, Perry has a stage play featuring the character in the works during a “farewell tour.”
“All the originals, we’re going to be out there doing it again,” he revealed, referring to the original actors who were involved in his play. “We’ll be out there.”
TheGone Girlactor has previously credited his mother, Willie Maxine Perry, and Eddie Murphy’s performance inNutty Professor II: The Klumpsfor inspiring Madea.
“[I was]scared to death.Scared to death because I had never put the costume on during any of the rehearsal,” Perry shared. “It was just weird. I walked out there on the stage and the lights come up and she’s sitting on the sofa. And for the whole first act she was just sitting on the sofa, she wouldn’t move.”
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That all changed when Perry decided to make a change in the stage directions for Madea.
“Well, one day I decided I needed to go and get something out of the kitchen, so I got up and started walking and the audience was howling, laughing. And I thought, ‘What are they laughing at?’ I realized she’s got this big a— in the back,” he said. “It’s like two pigs under the blanket fighting or something. But I started to relax at the end of it because there was an actress who didn’t show up. So I had to do her lines and my lines.”
“I was defeated,” Perry said. “But there was a standing ovation. And that’s where she started.”
source: people.com
