Tyler Perry On The Power of Kindness, Gratitude & His New Movie "A Jazzman's Blues"

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Business, Health & Fitness, Sports, Wrestling

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🗓️ 23 September 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Tyler Perry (@tylerperry) is an actor, filmmaker and the owner of Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta, GA. He joins Chris Van Vliet to talk about new movie called "A Jazzman's Blues" which is streaming now on Netflix. He talks about writing the original screenplay for this movie in 1995, why now was the right time to make it, the lessons he learned from Oprah Winfrey, working with David Fincher on the movie "Gone Girl", his partnership with Netflix and much more! Check out A Jazzman's Blues here: http://www.netflix.com/ajazzmansblues If you enjoyed this episode, could I ask you to please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcast/iTunes? It takes less than a minute and makes a huge difference in helping to spread the word about the show and also to convince some hard-to-get guests. For more information about CVV and INSIGHT go to: https://podcast.chrisvanvliet.com Follow CVV on social media: Instagram: instagram.com/ChrisVanVliet Twitter: twitter.com/ChrisVanVliet Facebook: facebook.com/ChrisVanVliet YouTube: youtube.com/ChrisVanVliet TikTok: tiktok.com/@Chris.VanVliet CVV CLIPS: youtube.com/CVVCLIPS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	All systems are going.
0:01.3	Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Blea.
0:07.7	It is so good to have you with us on this one.
0:11.3	Welcome back to another audio adventure on Insight.
0:14.5	I'm CBV Chris Van Fleet, and this is the big one today.
0:18.5	Not only because it's episode 400, which is amazing and kind of hard to wrap my head around this, but we get to celebrate this milestone with Tyler Perry.
0:30.2	Tyler is one of my favorite people to talk to, and I've been so fortunate to have done so many interviews with him over the last 10 or so years.
0:39.5	And by the way, thank you for being with us, whether this is the first episode that you've
0:44.2	ever listened to or whether you've been here the whole time for all 400 episodes. I appreciate
0:50.4	you so much. And I appreciate Tyler. He's been so exceptionally kind to me my entire
0:56.4	career. And when you talk to anyone about Tyler Perry, though, that's just the person that he is.
1:02.3	It's just the kind of guy he is. And I owe him a debt of gratitude for the kindness that he showed me
1:08.7	and just his generous nature.
1:12.4	And I'm just so glad that we could sit down for this to talk about his new movie.
1:16.3	It's called a Jazz Man's Blues.
1:18.0	It's out on Netflix as of today.
1:20.4	He wrote it, directed it, and produced it, and it's actually one of the first screenplays
1:25.7	that he ever wrote.
1:27.1	He wrote this back in 1995,
1:29.1	and he tells me the whole story behind why he's making it now and why 27 years later is the
1:36.0	right time to put this out. If you haven't done so already, please follow the podcast wherever
1:41.1	you're listening right now and take a screenshot tag us so that we know
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