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Chasing Life

Tyler Perry’s Pandemic Response

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.58K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Filmmaker Tyler Perry is receiving an honorary Academy Award this weekend, so for today’s podcast, we revisit a conversation between CNN’s Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Perry about the quarantine bubble he set up at his studio in Atlanta last summer. They talk about how Perry built his bubble and successfully restarted production without any positive Covid-19 cases on set, and what the experience was like on the inside.  To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

The 93rd Academy Awards will take place on Sunday, but unlike previous years, it's going

0:08.4

to be held in several locations, two in Los Angeles, a couple of places in Europe, all of

0:13.5

that obviously in response to COVID-related protocols and travel restrictions.

0:18.4

Now, hosting a multi-location award ceremony is a pretty challenging feat, especially at

0:24.2

a time when Hollywood is still trying to figure out how exactly to produce television and

0:28.8

films in the middle of a pandemic.

0:32.0

Media mogul Tyler Perry is given credit oftentimes for helping the entertainment industry make

0:37.7

a lot of headway in that particular department, and he'll receive an honorary statue at this

0:42.7

year's ceremony for his efforts to get Hollywood back to work and his other humanitarian work

0:47.8

as well.

0:49.2

Last summer, he created a bubble at his Atlanta Bay studio dubbed Camp Quarantine.

0:55.2

His public says that his production company was able to shoot several shows and work with

0:59.8

hundreds of people, and they had no positive COVID cases.

1:04.3

So on today's episode, we're revisiting a conversation I had with him last August about

1:09.6

how he was able to build that bubble at Tyler Perry Studios and what the experience was

1:15.1

really like inside.

1:18.0

I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's chief medical correspondent, and this is coronavirus,

1:23.8

fact versus fiction.

1:31.7

Actor, writer, director, and producer Tyler Perry has been behind dozens of films and

1:38.3

TV series.

1:39.8

He runs his own production facility on a 330 acre lot in Atlanta, Georgia.

1:46.0

Early last year, Perry was all set to start production there on the second season of his

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