Madea’s days of crude language and criminal offenses are coming to an end.
Tyler Perry, 49, revealed Monday that he’s killing off the iconic character next year, nearly two decades after everyone was introduced to the gun-toting grandmother.
“This is it,” Perry told host Bevy Smith Monday on her SiriusXM radio show, “Bevelations.” “It’s time for me to kill that old (expletive). I’m tired!”
Don’t fret. Madea will make a final cameo in a farewell stage tour and in 2019’s “Tyler Perry’s A Madea Family Funeral,” but based on Perry’s admission, it may be the profane matriarch being laid to rest.
Fandango ✔@Fandango20 years after Tyler Perry created Madea he will retire the character in Tyler Perry's a Madea Family Funeral; 3.1.2019
“We’re gonna say goodbye in (2019),” Perry said.
His reasoning? “I just don’t want to be her age, playing her.” Perry has portrayed Madea since 1999, debuting the infamous character onstage during, “I Can Do Bad All by Myself.”
Despite retiring the makeup and wig forever, Perry will likely hold Madea close to his heart. The character – based on his own mother, aunt and Eddie Murphy’s performance in “Nutty Professor II: The Klumps” – has grossed more than $500 million worldwide at the box office from 10 films.
Source: USA Today
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