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Tyler Perry Talks Still Having A Stigma In Hollywood After Some Big Names Turned Down His Latest Movie
Chris Rock Finally Addressed
The Will Smith Oscars Slap And
Said That He's 'Not A Victim'
Ever since Will Smith slapped Chris Rock on stage at the 2022 Oscars, the latter hasn't said much about the in- cident publicly.
Earlier this year, the come- dian said he was still "process- ing" the incident and wasn't ready to get too far into it yet. Well, according to Us Weekly, Chris finally broke his silence during a recent performance in New Jersey on how he felt about the slap.
"Anyone who says words hurt has never been punched in the face," he joked at one point. “I’m not a victim," he said later in his set. "Yeah, that s**it hurt, m**herfu**er. But I shook that s**t off and went to work the next day."
"I don’t go to the hospital for a paper cut.”
CHRIS ROCK
Tyler Perry is a very tal- ented actor and filmmaker who started his career making stage productions to bringing his character of Madea to life on screen. Unfortunately, his latest films have not sat well with critics. It’s because of this string of bad luck that big names have turned down roles in Tyler Perry’s latest movie and here is what the Madea star has to say about that.
Reputation means every- thing when it comes to being a Hollywood filmmaker. Tyler Perry spoke all about that on the PEOPLE Every Day pod- cast about how approaching up-and-coming young actors gaining plenty of media atten- tion were turning down his new Netflix movie, A Jazzman’s Blues.
Unfortunately with this
TYLER PERRY
film, I went to a bunch of up- and-coming young artists who were getting a lot of attention and I asked them about doing the role. They read the script, they loved the script, but I
think there was a reservation or hesitation about working with me in particular on this film, because I guess they did- n’t know how it would turn out. Too bad, so sad for them.
The 52-year-old filmmaker continued to say in the podcast that actors and actresses have teams that choose to ignore Tyler Perry and push their young talent away from him. After all, the last Netflix film Perry took part in, A Fall From Grace, received mediocre reviews as well as a number of movie mistake er- rors that audiences couldn’t help but pay attention to. While it’s understandable from a business perspective, it’s still a shame for the Gone Girl actor to be turned down by those try- ing to make a name for them- selves.
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