He adapted Ntozake Shange's acclaimed 1975 theater work as the 2010 film For Colored Girls. Not all of Perry's films have been comedies. (Sample advice: "Too many people want to be friends with their children.") Perry memorialized Madea's words of wisdom in a 2006 book, Don't Make a Black Woman Take Off Her Earrings: Madea's Uninhibited Commentaries on Love and Life. The 10 Madea films have grossed more than $500 million at the box office. Madea - her name is the Southern pronunciation of "mother dearest" - is based on Perry's own mother and aunt combined with Eddie Murphy's over-the-top performance in Nutty Professor II: The Klumps. The 2005 release marked the cinematic debut of the intimidating and felonious "Madea" Mabel Simmons, her hapless brother Joe, and his son Brian - all played by Perry. They financed Perry's first film, Diary of a Mad Black Woman, which he wrote, produced, and starred in. His 1998 play I Know I Been Changed and its successors became wildly popular on the urban theater circuit. Introduced in Perry's 1999 play I Can Do Bad All By Myself, Madea will meet her end in 2019 during the Madea Farewell Play Tour and latest movie, A Madea Family Funeral.īefore Perry put on his Madea wig, makeup, and fat suit, he was a high school dropout in New Orleans inspired to write by an Oprah Winfrey episode. After 10 plays and as many films, Tyler Perry is retiring Madea, his most memorable - and profitable - creation. Say goodbye to America's most malevolent mother.
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