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.
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 *
" 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.
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 *
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.
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?
BRANDON BLACK ON BEG THE FIRST GAY CHARACTER A MAA MOVIE
* madea gay *
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. 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.
BRANDON BLACK ON BEG THE FIRST OPENLY GAY CHARACTER IN A 'MAA' MOVIE: 'IT'S A B OF CATHARSIS'
Tim is the eye of a storm of crazy-ass fay members, so I hope, straight or gay, you see yourself Tim. 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.
ALLEGEDLY… IS GAY!
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. “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.