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Tyler Perry Was Actually Great In ‘Gone Girl’

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Tyler Perry has a lot more to celebrate in addition to his new baby along the way!

The reviews are in for the new thriller, “Gone Girl,” and critics are raving about Tyler Perry’s “superb” performance. The “Why Did I Get Married?” actor plays Tanner Bolt, an attorney who The Daily Beast describes as a “dazzling, hotshot Johnnie Cochran-esque” character. “Perry’s Bolt is witty, slick, brilliant, and convincing,” wrote The Daily Beast critic Alex Suskind. “Like any high-powered attorney who charges $100,000 for a retainer, Bolt always seems to be one step ahead of the competition. Yet his demeanor is more confident than cocky. It’s not an easy assignment, but Perry finds the balance. He’s able to look through the absurdity of it all, and even provide light commentary along the way.”

Tyler’s raving review may come as a surprise to even him, considering that he wasn’t sure how he even landed the role. “It’s so great,” Tyler said to Jimmy Fallon. “I don’t know how the hell I got in it.”

But, director David Fincher knows exactly what made him want to cast Tyler.“[Perry] has a huge campus with seven or eight soundstages,” Fincher said in an interview. “As we walked up to the main building, I saw this guy on the roof, in a tracksuit with a radio-controlled airplane. He was flying it around in circles. Someone then said to us, ‘Mr. Perry will be right with you.’ I thought, ‘That’s who Tanner Bolt should be.’ He’s the guy who puts you on hold while he finishes flying his remote-controlled airplane.”

 

 

AM BUZZ: Mariah’s Terrible Performance; Raven-Symoné Admits Girlfriend, But Don’t Call Her Gay (OR Black) & More  was originally published on hellobeautiful.com

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