Tyler Perry's Camp Quarantine
Chasing Life
CNN
4.5 • 8K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2020
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hollywood is eager to get back to work, but figuring out how to get everyone back on set safely is a big challenge. |
| 0:10.0 | Many television shows and films require hundreds of people to make the production run smoothly. |
| 0:15.0 | Even in normal times, it's a massive undertaking. |
| 0:19.0 | So what can studios do in the middle of a pandemic when mask gatherings are banned and social distancing and mask wearing are essential? |
| 0:27.0 | For nearly all of them, the answer so far has been to stop production. |
| 0:32.0 | But recently, one studio worked out an alternative, a quarantined bubble. |
| 0:37.0 | This is a place where the entire staff and crew can come together and live, cut off from interactions with the rest of the world for the entire duration of production. |
| 0:48.0 | Today's episode is all about how they were able to pull this off and what the experience was like inside the bubble. |
| 0:55.0 | I spoke with media mogul Tyler Perry about what he and his cast and crew came to call Camp Quarantine. |
| 1:03.0 | I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent. |
| 1:07.0 | And this is coronavirus, fact versus fiction. |
| 1:15.0 | Actor, writer, director, and producer, Tyler Perry has been behind dozens of films and TV series. |
| 1:23.0 | And he runs his own production facility on a 330 acre lot in Atlanta, Georgia. |
| 1:28.0 | Earlier this year, he was set to start production there on the second season of his show, Sisters. |
| 1:34.0 | But then the pandemic hit. |
| 1:36.0 | What I usually do at the top of the years, I write all of my scripts and I'll go into production around March because it's cooler in Atlanta. |
| 1:42.0 | It's better for the crew. It's the best time to go in. |
| 1:44.0 | It's right after, right during and right after pollen season. |
| 1:48.0 | I was already to go. It was March 16th. I'm watching. I'm reading. I'm paying attention to all that's happening with the numbers. |
| 1:55.0 | And I go, okay, we have to shut down. |
| 1:57.0 | How did you know, Tyler? |
| 1:59.0 | What were you looking at? How are you gathering your information and knowledge at that point to make your decisions? |
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