The writer-director has announced the retirement of divisive alter ego ‘Madea’. It marks the end of a surprisingly revolutionary era of cinema
“I’m sick of that old bitch,” Tyler Perry recently said of Mabel “Madea” Simmons. “Time for me to bury that old broad, man.” Usually that’s no way to talk about a septuagenarian great-grandmother, but Perry is referring to his own fat-suited alter ego, and many would agree with him. After nearly 20 years, 10 stage plays, 10 movies, numerous cameos and even a straight-to-dvd animation, Perry announced he is retiring the Madea character after next year’s A Madea Family Funeral. Few will mourn her passing but it’s the end of some kind of era.
For the uninitiated, which includes most non-African Americans, Madea is a bewildering proposition, her enduring popularity even more so. Her pantomime-dame antics make Eddie Murphy’s Nutty Professor II: The Klumps look Shakespearean.
“I’m sick of that old bitch,” Tyler Perry recently said of Mabel “Madea” Simmons. “Time for me to bury that old broad, man.” Usually that’s no way to talk about a septuagenarian great-grandmother, but Perry is referring to his own fat-suited alter ego, and many would agree with him. After nearly 20 years, 10 stage plays, 10 movies, numerous cameos and even a straight-to-dvd animation, Perry announced he is retiring the Madea character after next year’s A Madea Family Funeral. Few will mourn her passing but it’s the end of some kind of era.
For the uninitiated, which includes most non-African Americans, Madea is a bewildering proposition, her enduring popularity even more so. Her pantomime-dame antics make Eddie Murphy’s Nutty Professor II: The Klumps look Shakespearean.
- 11/12/2018
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
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