Edor’s note: Spoilers for ‘Tyler Perry’s A Maa Homeg’ below : Maa isn’t out of missn jt yet! She’s back on Netflix for Tyler Perry’s A Maa Homeg . The film featur the Maa anchise’s very first openly gay character Tim, played by Brandon Black. This is Black’s first major film, and he to the anchise after playg Korll, a supportg character through all seasons of Netflix’s Dear Whe People. Photo: Charley Gallay/Getty Imag for Netflix This is a major moment the Maa films, and ’s somethg that Black wish he saw when he was younger.
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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 BEG THE FIRST GAY CHARACTER A MAA MOVIE
- BRANDON BLACK ON BEG THE FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN A 'MAA' MOVIE: 'IT'S A B OF CATHARSIS'
- ALLEGEDLY… IS GAY!
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. * madea 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. 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.
TYLER PERRY’S NEWT ‘MAA’ MOVIE MAK HISTORY WH GAY CHARACTER
As Tyler Perry brgs the first Maa movie to Netflix, Brandon Black plays the anchise's first gay character. * madea gay *
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. 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. Bee I do want to play gay characters, but I want to talk about what they're gonna be. I get some dns for gay characters.
BRANDON BLACK ON PLAYG THE FIRST GAY CHARACTER THE MAA CEMATIC UNIVERSE
Tyler Perry's "A Maa Homeg" is the first movie all of the 10 anchise films to feature a gay character. Brandon Black stars as Tim, Maa's great-grandson, the new Netflix film. * madea gay *
To me, that means, you should be exced, stg directors, to st me gay thgs and straight thgs bee I n do all. Jt like you n st straight people to do gay rol. Tim is the eye of a storm of crazy-ass fay members, so I hope, straight or gay, you see yourself Tim.
BRANDON BLACK ON BEG THE FIRST GAY CHARACTER A MAA MOVIE
* madea gay *
I hope that straight people see that this is jt another du or whatever, and for gay people, I hope that they see that owng yourself n pay off. And that's a ltle b of what was to book a gay role. For the first time, “Tyler Perry’s A Maa Homeg” — which is now streamg on Netflix — the seri has a gay character, played by actor Brandon Black.
BRANDON BLACK ON BEG THE FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN A 'MAA' MOVIE: 'IT'S A B OF CATHARSIS'
“He is strsg about that, but he also has somethg he needs to announce to his fay and that would be that he is gay, ” Black told Geia Voice. ” The actor said there are gay people most fai, so mak sense to see a gay great-grandson here.
“I have been workg wh Covenant Hoe many many years and a lot of those kids there were LGBTQ+ kids who were put out of their hoe bee they were gay and end up homels and the streets, ” Perry said. I personally believe Pastor Korll was gay, but never gets revealed, so for me ’s the fun of jtifyg why he is so tense about preachg the word. Wh your role as Tim, you have played the first openly gay character Maa history.
Y, I keep talkg about how I want to see more gay stori, and not all of them are gonna be the tragic, dark, shameful stori.
ALLEGEDLY… IS GAY!
I want to book some straight parts, and I want you to see an out gay Black man playg straight rol the way you see straight men playg gay rol. And then the other thg is, I really want to see more gay rol [different] genr.
You don’t really see a leadg gay character a psychologil thriller—you see some foreign gay films, but terms of mass-produced, stud-backed big films or televisn shows… Like image if you saw like Archive 81, which is a really ol show, but what if he was gay though? Same thg, same stori, same everythg, but he was gay. That’s the kd of stuff I’m hopg exists more the future, and there’s a lot of gay Black actors that are on the rise right now, and I’m so exced to be part of that swell, and I hope that this movie helps that even further.
Like your leadg character, he’s gay, and then what do that mean for everythg else? What was the pot that you were tryg to make when you highlighted that even though one of the characters was gay and we all knew? Or even jt watchg the thgs that have happened to Matthew Shepherd Wyomg or Tyler Clementi jumpg off a bridge bee of people fdg out that they were gay.