During a recent appearance on Keke Palmer’s Baby, This Is Keke Palmer podcast, billionaire filmmaker and actor Tyler Perry fired back at people criticizing his latest movie, Divorce in the Black, and his previous projects.
Per Complex, Perry, 54, touched on that topic when Palmer asked him about the negative reviews his new movie has received following its release. Perry said he doesn’t really dwell on the negativity because the positive responses are overwhelming.
“You got to drown all of that out because if you let somebody talk you out of a place that God has put you in, you are going to find yourself in hell,” the Good Deeds actor said. “I know for a fact that what I’m doing is exactly what I’m supposed to be doing because for everyone who is a critic, I have thousands of emails from people saying ‘This changed my life.’ ‘Oh my God, you know me.’ ‘Oh my God, you saw me, how did you know this about my life, my family?’ So that is what is important to me.”
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He added: “We’re talking a large portion of my fans who are disenfranchised who cannot get in the Volvo and go to therapy on the weekend. So you got this highbrow Negro who is all up in the air with his nose up looking at everything, and then you got people like where I come from and me who are grinders who really know what it’s like whose mothers were caregivers for white kids and were maids and housekeepers and all of these beauticians. Don’t discount these people and say that their story don’t matter. Who are you to be able to say which Black story is important or should be told. Get out of here with that bullshit.”
TMZ reported that the Divorce in the Black score on Rotten Tomatoes is 0 percent – though the movie’s audience score stands at 71 percent. Perry’s response comes after fellow actor Corey Hardrict claimed the movie had been well received. Hardrict starred in the film.
“I don’t know nothing about it,” he said in response to the criticisms. “I didn’t see that. I mean, the people love the movie and we do it for the people–that’s who I do it for. If the culture’s rocking with it, it’s all love. Shoutout Mr. Perry, I love Mr. Perry, though. That’s my guy.”
Hardrict continued: “Everyone has an opinion, and they’re entitled to it. So it’s fine. But as long as the people see it, my neighborhood see it, South Side, Chicago, L.A. see it, everybody see it, then I’m happy, it’s all love.”
