Thanks again for being here every time.
I saw that your name tag said "Tyler from New Orleans."
-New Orleans, yeah, born and raised, New Orleans, man.
-Is that right? I thought it was Atlanta.
-No, no, I went to Atlanta -- I moved to Atlanta in like '92.
I was like 18, 19 years old.
There's -- you know, White kids go to the beach
for spring break.
Black kids were going to Atlanta.
-Oh. -Don't know why.
There was no beach. I don't know.
We just went to Atlanta for a thing called Freaknik.
-Freaknik?
-Yeah, it's like a picnic for freaks when you're young.
It was -- it was really cool.
But while everybody's there having a good time,
everybody's like, you know, partying.
You know what people do on spring break.
They're -- you know, they're doing that.
But I was seeing Black people do well
for the first time in my life.
I was shocked at how well they were doing.
So I went back to New Orleans and loaded up my Hyundai
and moved to Atlanta.
That's where it all started for me.
-That's wild.
I mean, now, Tyler Perry Studios,
you have the largest studio
in the United States, in the country.
-That's what they tell me, yeah, that's what they tell me.
-Yeah.
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I mean, they film everything there, all these projects --
"Walking Dead," you did "Coming 2 America,"
"Red Notice," Marvel movies.
-Marvel movies going on there, yeah.
-Do you know secrets? Marvel secrets?
-I do not.
Listen to me, just to make this clear --
[ Drum beast ]
Come on, man, there's no drum roll here!
No, no, no, no, no. [ Laughter ]
I don't -- I don't go to -- like -- okay.
When the stages are empty, you know, something is going on,
I will go and make sure everything
is all right at the stage.
So if you see people rehearsing and shooting things,
it's like, "Oh, wow, that's cool.
That's what's going to be in the movie?"
And so you start writing it down.
But no, that's not what I'm doing.
That's all B.S. No.
The only time I know something is like
they'll call me up and they say we're doing gunfire
or explosions or something like that, they'll let me know.
-Because you own the -- yeah -Yeah.
-So you can tell -- you would know
if Tobey Maguire is in the new Spider-Man?
-I absolutely would, and I would know all of those things,
because he would be there. -Yeah, so you walk by,
he'll say, "Hey, Tyler," and you go, "Hey, Tobey."
-Yeah, I'm like, "I don't see you. I don't see you."
-So you did -- you did see him?
-No, did not -- come on. [ Drum beat ]
[ Laughter ]
That's good. -Not bad, right?
-That's really good. That's really good.
Good work, good work. -I'm telling you, man,
I'm working on my acting.
I'm taking acting classes on weekends.
-That works, but just that whole jolly, thing, man, that was --
[ Laughter ]
-That was the worst. -That was B.S.
-That was the worst move I could ever do.
I know. -Won't let it go.
-Will you never -- will you forget --
ever forget that I said "jolly?"
-No, no. [ Laughter ]
You have ruined my entire Christmas because every time
I see Santa, I'm gonna think "jolly."
We lost because of that. [ Laughter ]
-I -- did you ever think that you'd have this studio
and be open to so many different projects and things
happening and that creative?
-It's a wonderful thing, no, no.
All I wanted to do was -- was just -- I built the stages
so that everybody else could rent them and use them,
because i don't use the stages, but I use the rest of the lot.
-Yeah. -So it's really great to see
all of these other productions coming and setting
up shop and doing all these great things.
It's wonderful, man. I love it.
-We just talked about you on the show.
We do -- I should send you a text every time we talk,
but you get like crazy.
But Whoopi Goldberg was here. -Whoopi, I love Whoopi.
-Man, she was so funny, she crushed,
and we were talking about "Sister Act 3."
-Yeah, yeah. -You made it happen.
-I don't know if I made it happen as much
as she made it happen, but I wanted to be a part of it
to make sure that we could get it done,
so I signed on to it so that we could get it done, but yeah.
She already laid the groundwork, man.
So to have "Sister Act 3" -- we need a "Sister Act."
Don't we need "Sister Act?" I mean...
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-I love it. -Everything going on
in the country, we need something good.
We need some of that kind of humor from back in the day.
-Madea's back! -Yes, yes, Madea's coming back.
[ Laughs ]
I'll tell you, I was done, man.
I was done, but so much was going on in the country,
I said, "You know, we just need to laugh."
And what do I -- what tool
do I have in my box that can make people laugh?
And it's Madea, so I dusted her off.
-Yeah. -And here she comes.
-And here she comes. -Bigger and better
than ever, man.
-When does it come out? Do we know?
-We don't have a date just yet, but it's definitely on Netflix
and we're excited, so everybody gets the chance to see it.
-Yeah, and do you ever, by the way, slip into Madea,
like, just talking?
-Like I just did a few minutes ago?
-Yes, exactly, but I'm saying, like, in situations
where you shouldn't? Where you're just like...
I don't know -- you what happens?
If I get excited, my voice goes up high
and people think I'm trying to do Madea, but I'm just excited.
So I've been speaking at funerals -- [ Laughs ]
-Oh, my, no, no, no, no, no.
-Yeah, and some of them are on YouTube.
I'm speaking at funerals, and you hear my pitch go up
out of the excitement, and people think
I'm making fun and doing Madea, but that's my voice.
She comes from me. I own that broad!
[ Laughter ] She comes from me.
You hear that? That's exactly right.
-I own that broad. -When we come back,
I want to talk about your new movie...
"Don't Look Up." -Yeah, "Don't Look Up."
-"Don't Look Up." -"Don't Look Up." Tyler Perry.
More right after the break. Stick around, everyone.