Tyler Perryis telling his life story in a new documentary.
The documentary’s trailer opens with a clip from Perry’s 2010 appearance on CBS’s60 Minutes, noting that, at the time, five of Perry’s movies had opened at the top spot at the domestic box office in the four preceding years.
The trailer then dives into how Perry, born Emmitt Perry Jr., changed his name due to hisdifficult relationship with his fatherandabusive childhood. Personalities interviewed in the film note that Perry “broke every rule” in Hollywood when he broke out with 2005’sDiary of a Mad Black Womanand 2006’sMadea’s Family Reunion.
The upcoming documentary will also dive into Perry’s relationship with his mother, Willie Maxine Perry, and how her death in 2009 affected him at the height of his success.
Prime Video
According to Prime Video, the documentary — named after his mother — “is a tender and intimate portrait of visionary and innovator Tyler Perry and his harrowing-but-faithful road to the top of an industry that didn’t always include him.”
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Perry has opened up about his difficult childhood and past a number of times over the years. On Oct. 6, he shared a video toInstagramof a 2018 interview. During that conversation, he talked about how he was “devastated, broke, hungry, homeless” at the beginning of his career.
“People would think that’s a failure," he said at the time. “But it was a setup for the next thing. Everything that I thought was there to make me fail and destroy me was something that made me stronger and better. Failure is a prism; it’s how you look at it.”
source: people.com
