Multi-hyphen talent Tyler Perry took to Instagram to talk about work ethic early on Monday (Jan. 6). In a brief video, he reveals that he he doesn’t employ a writers room to help with his scripts. He writes every script for all of his shows.
On a video featured on his Instagram page, Perry shows a desk full of scripts from The Haves and the Have Nots, The Oval, Bruh, Assisted Living, Ruthless, Sistas, House of Payne and Young Dylan.
“All shows on television have a writers room and most of the time there are 10 people, 12, whatever that write on these television shows,” Perry said in the video. “I have no writers room. Nobody writes any of my work. I write it all. Why am I telling you this? I wrote all of these scripts by myself in 2019. What’s my point, work ethic!”
For Perry, work ethic is an understatement. The director, writer and producer had an amazing 2019 with the grand opening of his 330-acre studio location in Atlanta. He also signed a major deal with Viacom to produce content for the streaming service BET+.
The favor doesn’t stop there, however. The man who made it without Hollywood will debut his thriller A Fall from Grace on the coveted Netflix platform, which is slated for release on Jan. 17.
Perry has made such an impact that his peers have no choice but to acknowledge him. In an interview with IndieWire, comedian actor Eddie Murphy compared the main character in his film Dolemite is my Name to Tyler Perry.
“Today, Rudy Ray Moore would be Tyler Perry. On the surface, he looks like he just popped up, but he was making these plays and doing Madea all around so he had a grassroots following,” Murphy said. “That’s what Rudy did when he went, ‘Hey, I got this thing, I know what’s good, I believe in it and I’m going to go and work and sell it out of my trunk and get it going.’ Your belief and your volition gets you whatever you want. He doesn’t have any of this stuff that’s supposed to make you.”
