Tyler Perry has been working on his passion project for over 20 years, and now it debuts on Netflix.
."So, I was building my company, building my studio and building all of those things so that was the focus. And, you know, being Black in Hollywood -- if you have a flop you don’t get as many chances as someone else would. So I couldn’t take the chance to do a period piece, especially 10, 15 years ago. It would have been really difficult to get done so the timing was right, and here I am.
Perry said that he understands the doubts that delayed the project's production."They read the script, loved the script and wanted to do it. [Then] they talked to their teams and they'd come back and go, 'Wait a minute, is Madea going to pop up around the corner, go hello?' As if I don’t understand what this is right," he shared."So, I completely understand it, but everything that I’ve always done always ends up the way that’s it’s supposed to be.
"With everything going on in the country, now is the best time to tell this story," Perry added. "With... so many people talking about our history as Black people in the country, I felt this was the right time to tell the story. With there being an assault on the history of what has happened with Black people, to banning books, taking out our stories, wanting to homogenize slavery and make it seem like it was OK.
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