12/31/2022 0 Comments Madeas neighbors from hell movie![]() I love him best on stage when I’m in a play with him because Madea is so funny. Whether it’s TV or film or the plays, and with the plays he allows me to more free than with television and film. It’s not gig and it’s not my show, and whatever I try to portray, if I can please him, it fits in with what he actually wants for the piece. I think I alleviate a whole lot of problems because I respect him so much. How is working with Tyler Perry on stage and behind the scenes?ĬD: Whether it’s on stage or behind the scenes, it is just a treat for me. By the time we hit opening night, you will be good. It’s okay to make a mistake because nothing is set in stone. Because they were new, we made them feel comfortable. Sometime you have those who are standoffish and hesitant at first, but by the you get in there and you get it rolling and everyone loosens up and you see, “Okay, you’re not a diva and you’re not trying to be better than me,” and they see that the set is a relaxed environment, you just want to your best for the material especially for the people who are coming to see it. I loved all the cast that I have ever worked with because we are all so grateful to work. They were so green and eager and ready and willing to just get in there and run with it. They have to see your face when you are talking.” All these things he didn’t have to handle. Some of them you have to say, “Excuse me, you can’t turn your back to the audience. Perry usually allows us to put the play up in the theater and it was a great time for me to bond with the people and just help them get to their place. Wess Morgan had worked with Tyler Perry before and I was the other one, but everyone else was new and green. Even if they go in their house and dog me out, when they come out, it’s all, “Hi Cassi, everything good?” and I’m like, “Everything’s great.”ĬD: This particular cast was the sweetest because they were so eager. In the neighborhood we I live now, all of us are just friendly. So, I didn’t have a neighbor from hell, but I had one that was nosey from hell. My dad came home and stayed til 11 o’clock and I had to put the boy in the closet. I was trying to act like we were married and the neighbor up the street called my dad and told him that a boy came over to the house. We weren’t doing anything but watching TV, soap operas and eating popcorn. The older one was working and the younger one I had sent on a bike road. They were gone for the day and we were on Spring Break and I was about 11 or so, and at the time, I had two brothers who were working. ![]() Have you ever been in a situation where you had unruly neighbors?ĬD: No, but when I was younger and living in Mississippi, my mom was a schoolteacher and my dad taught at a college. ![]() Perry and say, “Whoa! You want her to do that. Every time I approach the character, I look at Mr. Every adventure is just that an adventure. It’s just that wisdom that they have.ĬD: I love her.I just love her. They just ask questions and in asking those questions, they find out so many things and nine times out of ten, old people already know. You know how you have those older people who are just in the neighborhood, and if something is not the norm, they just bring attention to it. She’s nosey, sits on her porch, and sheds life on what’s there. She notices the plot or she notices the plan and she really is the neighbor from hell. How would you describe Aunt Bam in this particular play?Ĭassi Davis: In this rendition, I think she is the catalyst for everything that happens. In speaking with, Davis talks about playing Aunt Bam once again and working with Tyler Perry. ![]() Having worked with Perry on numerous, the Mississippi native played Aunt Bam in about three stage shows and on the films Madea’s Family Reunion and Madea Goes to Jail. In true Madea fashion, a big mess is cleared up using tough love and Southern mama sensibilities.įor Davis, who’s play Aunt Bam, it’s a return to the stage and character she was known for prior to taking on the role of as Ella Payne on Tyler Perry’s House of Payne for TNT. The trouble begins when social workers start showing up AND then Madea’s house is broken into. When a new family moves in next door to Madea, all seems well – cute kids, loving mother. The play pits no nonsense matriarch Madea and feisty neighborhood know-it-all Aunt Bam up against some troubled new neighbors.
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