In addition to playing the role of alex cross, Vice Yes do not lookTyler Perry has spent much of his career headlining black films and TV shows, including the make one film series (which returned earlier this year with A homecoming Madea), Acrimony, A fall from grace Yes Payne’s house. Perry’s next project on this front is The blues of a jazz playerwhich he wrote in 1995. Prior to the release of this movie on Netflix, Perry shared his feelings about adding more different stories to the entertainment industry and what he thinks it will take to get there. .
The blues of a jazz player was one of the films screened at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, participating the woman king, Inspection and even more as black-led / directed stories, both fictionalized and told in documentary form, that participants can see before being made public. On black designers shining at TIFF 2022, Perry said this during an industry keynote in Toronto (via Terme):
Let me be very careful how I say it, be diplomatic. I’m extremely excited about what happened with the diversity, options and opportunities we see for the first time for blacks, it’s incredible. But I am concerned because there is such a push for diversity and hiring of people of color that I have found situations where people are being pushed into positions they are not prepared for.
It makes an interesting point. On the one hand, there are more and more opportunities these days for black talents to work on stories that talk about their experiences, whether acting in front of the camera or working behind the scenes. On the other hand, in addition to having more room overall for further growth and improvement, Perry is also concerned that this increased diversity will lead to talent facing certain challenges that they are not properly trained to handle. Fortunately for them, Perry launched Tyler Perry Studios to alleviate those concerns. Here’s what the director said about his production company:
At Tyler Perry Studios we train so many people, we have people involved and they are doing amazing work, but as soon as people get trained and know the job, they get ripped off to move to a bigger production which is great because if you want to find people who know their stuff, if they can do it in my studio, they can do it anywhere.
Although Tyler Perry Studios have been around since 2006, they entered a new phase in 2019 when it established its new headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. Since then, the company has been a major player in the Atlanta film scene, but when it comes to its overall aspirations, Tyler Perry wants to make sure that including more black talent in film and television production also means they have the skills to manage production. attractive products. He explained:
What I don’t want is blacks in positions we weren’t prepared for and then non-blacks expelled from those positions … If we don’t get the qualifications or the education or the education to get there, then how do they give us places like that. rush? Hopefully in all of these changes and pushing for greater inclusion, we also provide time and training to make sure we can do a great job.
Tyler Perry’s recent comments follow a month after he explained how much more important it was to appeal to black audiences in his career than to ask for the approval of the powers that be in Hollywood and Broadway, which allowed for this next special to be carved out. . With regard to The blues of a jazz player, this film which took 27 years to shoot tells, as the official synopsis goes, “a vast story of forbidden love” that “reveals forty years of secrets and lies with a juke joint blues soundtrack in the great south”. Its cast includes Joshua Boone, Amirah Vann, Solea Pfeiffer, Austin Scott, Ryan Eggold, Brent Antonello, Brad Benedict, Milauna Jemai Jackson, Kario Marcel, Corey Champagne and Elliot Holden.
Netflix subscribers will be able to stream The blues of a jazz player starting September 23, and you can browse our Netflix 2022 movie schedule to find out what other cinematic content the platform still has to offer this year.
Source: Cinemablend
