38. When he was cast as Gen. Colin Powell in Adam McKay‘S Evil behaviorPerry called the former secretary of state to receive his blessing. Apparently they clicked. “He sent me his book, I sent him my book, he texts me now,” Perry said. Diversity in 2019. (Powell dies in 2021.)
39. “He’s skilled,” says McKay Diversity about Perry, describe how well he played a very improvised scene with Steve Carell equal Donald Rumsfeld. “There’s no doubt we’ll see him in more dramatic roles, if he wants to.” McKay also cast Perry as a morning show host who laughs at the apocalypse in his 2021 Oscar-nominated satire. Don’t look up.
40. Not everyone is an admirer. Perry is also a 17-time Razzie nominee (or 20 times if you count simultaneous nominations for two different roles on three occasions) and a two-time “win” for worst actress, for A Madea Christmas and Boo 2! A Madea Halloween. However, he did run for the Messiah Awards — a kiss-and-makeup nod to past nominees who have proven themselves to be respected artists — in 2019. give Evil behavior. He was then slapped with four more nominations in 2020 for various charges in Madea’s Family Funeral.
