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Everything You Need To Know About Showtime’s ‘Madea’ Prequel Show · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood. Tyler Perry told fans back in ten
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Speaker 1: he was retiring his iconic Medeia character mainly because he
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Speaker 1: didn't want to be playing her while getting close to
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Speaker 1: the same age. Turns out that's not entirely the case,
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Speaker 1: and if he does end up playing her again, he'll
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Speaker 1: be much older than her. Tyler and Showtime are teaming
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Speaker 1: up for a new prequel series, a Medeia origin story
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Speaker 1: called Mabel, set in Atlanta in nineteen seventy two. According
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Speaker 1: to producers, it will tell the story of Mabel Simmons.
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Speaker 1: Long before she was the force of nature known as Medeia.
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Speaker 1: She was a smart, fierce, irresistible, dangerous, crazy twenty something
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Speaker 1: woman who set the city and the world on fire.
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Speaker 1: It appears that Tyler may not be playing Medeia or
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Speaker 1: Mabel for this show, and may cast a new actor
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Speaker 1: in the role, but that remains to be seen. That's
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