Tyler Perry, who is more famous for his appearance in commercially successful movies like Sistas and A Madea’s Family Funeral, recently shared his plans for making a documentary based on these life events. During his hosting for the CBS Mornings talk show, the host shared with his fans about his plans to make “Maxine’s Baby,” which will be the title of his documentary, and the whole real-life scenario scripted documentary will be based on the life events of him and his long time life partner and his love of the life, Gelia Bekele and his mother.
Maxine Baby – A New Documentary Paying Tribute to Perry’s Inspiration
When it comes to making the documentary, many things happen, right? Be it from remembering the old stuff and then setting up a shooting spot and then doing the same to give the feel of what the narrative is all about.
However, one of the statements shared by the CBS Mornings host has left fans a bit more excited. Tyler Perry shares about having no such creative control over the documentary as his life events were shot raw for the last ten years.
Bringing back the events that happened in the past is a bit of a challenge, but Tyler seems to have taken a big step forward with the announcement of sharing the whole document; he didn’t use any such creative control, leaving a lot of confusion among the fans.
However, Hollywood clarified and shared that the footage in the documentary will be the raw footage taken through his past ten years. To make it simple to understand, there was always a camera following him for the past ten years, that’s something we have never seen!
“It’s not a story that I’m telling … It’s my life,” Perry said, adding that he hopes his struggles and triumphs displayed in the film will inspire others. “If that happens, then it was all worth it for me.“
The name of the documentary is dedicated to Perry’s mother, whose name was Maxine. His mother passed away back in 2009 due to a long illness.
“Everything I did was about her. All the work was about her. I was never after money. It was always about making enough money to take care of her, to buy her medicine, to make sure we were never in poverty again,” Perry said. “No matter how much I had, it was never enough.”
Alongside this, the Hollywood star also said that he is paying tribute to his mom by giving her name to the documentary, as his mom was the one who always encouraged and inspired him to become the multi-hyphenate star that he is known as today.
Not only as an actor but also as a producer, Tyler Perry has had a huge success. Today, he is also the owner of the Tyler Perry Studios, which is the biggest studio built across a massive 330 acres of land in Atlanta.