by Jeroslyn JoVonn
September 29, 2024
Tyler Perry is receiving reward from Keshia Knight Pulliam and Lance Gross for the alternatives he supplies.
Tyler Perry’s Home of Payne and Assisted Dwelling continues to dominate BET with new seasons and tales that resonate with households.
Season 5 of Tyler Perry’s sitcom Assisted Dwelling returns to the Nice Days Assisted Dwelling Facility, bringing extra heartfelt moments, real connections, and hilarity because the residents sort out challenges like parenting, relationship, and psychological and bodily well being. Courtney Nichole, who performs Leah, digs into Season 5 of Assisted Dwelling and the way the present represents her real-life expertise as a Chicago native who relocated her household to Atlanta.
“Once we moved in with Grandpa Vinnie we introduced our two children who’re youngsters and youngsters shifting them from Chicago to a small city or proper outdoors of Atlanta they usually weren’t actually with it,” Nichole explains to BLACK ENTERPRISE.
However regardless of the “challenges” her character had with getting her children adjusted to the brand new lifestyle, Season 5 sees the teenagers develop, “particularly our son,” she says.
“Our son is coming into his manhood, all the lads on the market. I believe they know,” Nichole says of Philip’s progress into his teenage years.
As a father or mother, it’s a “bittersweet” second watching your kids develop up and turn into extra unbiased from their dad and mom, she explains.
“I believe all of us like to see that. It’s type of a bittersweet factor. You’re taking a look at them figuring out that you just’ve executed an important job and watching them develop up and undergo these life challenges that you just your self went by way of,” Nichole says.
“However then now, to assist them navigate that, how do you, how a lot do you keep of their enterprise and the way a lot do you get out of it.”
In the meantime, Tyler Perry’s Home of Payne is in its eleventh season, and the Payne household faces extra of life’s ups and downs, dealing with sudden conditions with grace and laughter, all whereas studying invaluable life classes. It’s centered round retired fireplace chief Curtis Payne and his loving spouse, Ella, navigating life’s challenges with their quirky, modern-day household.
Keshia Knight Pulliam and Lance Gross star as fan-favorites Calvin and Miranda Payne however have additionally taken on management roles behind the digital camera as director and author. Knight Pulliam, who has over 40 years of sitcom expertise given her begin on The Cosbys within the Nineteen Eighties, shared how the present’s author, director, and government producer Tyler Perry has helped each of their careers by permitting them to guide on and off-screen.
“Not solely do you get to see Lance and I in entrance of the digital camera in our tangle that we’ve been doing for without end as Calvin and Miranda,” Knight Pulliam shared. “However, you realize, Lance is an incredible author who’s written episodes on the present in earlier seasons. I direct episodes of Home of Payne.”
“So after we speak about Tyler Perry and the way it [Perry’s leadership] reverberates, not solely is it, you realize, the chance to be in entrance of the digital camera but additionally, we each have loved the chance to be part of the manufacturing aspect of the present as nicely.”
Press play under for the complete interview and take a look at Tyler Perry’s Home of Payne and Assisted Dwelling on BET at your native listings.
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