As Tyler Perry brgs the first Maa movie to Netflix, Brandon Black plays the anchise's first gay character.
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- BRANDON BLACK ON PLAYG THE FIRST GAY ROLE A MAA MOVIE: 'I THK I'M QUALIFIED FOR THE JOB'
- TYLER PERRY’S NEWT ‘MAA’ MOVIE MAK HISTORY WH GAY CHARACTER
- BRANDON BLACK ON PLAYG THE FIRST GAY CHARACTER THE MAA CEMATIC UNIVERSE
BRANDON BLACK ON PLAYG THE FIRST GAY ROLE A MAA MOVIE: 'I THK I'M QUALIFIED FOR THE JOB'
Brandon Black talks playg the first gay character a Tyler Perry Maa movie. * a madea homecoming is tim gay *
And then there were the accatns over the years of homophobia, misogyny, and the words of unofficial Black spokperson Spike Lee, "onery and buffoonery" those movi.
TYLER PERRY’S NEWT ‘MAA’ MOVIE MAK HISTORY WH GAY CHARACTER
Benign bee this time the Simmons matriarch was biddg hellur to a gay character — notably, the first openly gay character to ever appear a Maa movie. It's nice, one uld even say important, to see a Black fay beg so supportive of an LGBTQ+ relative, pecially sce Black folks are often falsely picted as beg somehow more homophobic than the rt of society. For Brandon Black, who's openly gay, that g-out scene is what sold him on the project.
" EW talked to the San Diego native about jog the Maaverse, beg Black and gay Hollywood, the bety of endls mimosas, and sharg scen wh a 6'5" great-grandmother who also happened to be his boss. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: So you play the first openly gay character a Maa movie. And when I found out I was the first gay character a Maa movie, I thought, "Well, I thk I'm qualified for the job.
BRANDON BLACK ON PLAYG THE FIRST GAY CHARACTER THE MAA CEMATIC UNIVERSE
It's really excg that this movie wh this many ey on is gog to have a gay, Black character who is sure of himself. I told myself when I move to Los Angel, I will be a gay person who has moved to Los Angel. I got my mom dnk on some endls mimosas — a very gay task [lghs] — and then I told her.
This might be a ltle heavy of a qutn, but what's been your experience as a Black, openly gay actor Hollywood? So at one pot, I cid I wanted a gay agent on my team, like specifilly that, bee I wanted to be able to have some of the more nuanced nversatns about gay characters.