Bet You Didn’t Know: Secrets Behind The Making Of “The Family That Preys”

White Folks

Unlike the rest of Tyler Perry’s films, this one featured a diverse cast…in other words there were white folks involved. A complete step away from his usual work, many wondered why he was switching up. Others, specifically at the Atlanta Journal Constitution, wondered why this was Tyler’s first time he’d written about white folks. This is what he had to say.

“I never knew any white people! Really and truly. I grew up in New Orleans. I went to an all-black school. I lived in an all-black neighborhood. I never knew one white person. Not one. I moved here to Atlanta and for 15 years, I didn’t know any white people. Now I’m living in a world where I’m meeting all kinds of people. I’m a student of life. So I’m writing from other perspectives. Now I look at a situation and say, ‘Oh, this is how this person lives.'”