Tyler Perry Was ‘Creeped Out’ By Actress’ Billboard
It’s an outdated adage that folks will go to just about any size to get consideration in Hollywood, and now, it appears, that goes for Atlanta, too.
Racquel Bailey, as aspiring actress in Georgia, wished so badly to get Tyler Perry’s consideration that she paid for an advert on a billboard in Atlanta selling herself to the leisure icon. Seven years later, she ended up as an actress on Perry’s new present Sistas.
Bailey reportedly first took out the billboard advert in 2012, but it surely did not catch Perry’s eye. She repeated the trouble a number of extra occasions over the following few years, with the most recent try this previous summer time. That’s when the newly-minted studio boss lastly took discover.
After seeing the billboard in June, Perry took to his Instagram to explicitly request that nobody else try to drag the identical stunt. “This isn’t the way in which to get my consideration if you happen to’re on the lookout for a job in one in every of my reveals,” he wrote, partly. “Please DON’T DO THIS, SAVE YOUR MONEY!! That is the third time that somebody has carried out this. PLEASE STOP! To audition is FREE!! I’m certain you should use that cash for a greater function. I really like that you just need to work with me, and I really like that you just spend money on your self. However while you do issues like this it places my group on excessive alert and makes me have a look at you sideways.”
Effectively, Bailey did land a job on Perry’s new present, so did her antics work in spite of everything? Not likely. Seems, Perry didn’t find yourself discovering out that Bailey was the identical lady who took out the billboard advert till after he employed her — that means she landed the job based mostly on her deserves, not her shenanigans.
Perry was a visitor on Jimmy Kimmel Stay this previous week, the place he broke all of it down:
“That was scary as hell. I used to be actually creeped out about it,” he stated on the present when requested about Bailey and the advert. “She auditioned. I didn’t even realize it was her. I had separated the 2 in my thoughts. She obtained the job and after she will get the job, they inform me, ‘Oh that’s the woman from the billboard!’ I’m going, ‘What? Why didn’t someone inform me!?’ It’s good that she’s good as a result of if you happen to put up a billboard and also you suck, it’s not going to work.”
Though the billboard is just not what obtained her the job (in truth, it might need price her the gig had Perry put two and two collectively), Racquel Bailey had persistence in spades and achieved what she set out for.
Watch the complete interview section with Tyler Perry, beneath:
