*Attention everyone: Lee Daniels is not Tyler Perry.
Daniels made that fact abundantly clear while speaking to students at a lecture at Ohio State University not too long ago.
Daniels emphasized that while he and Perry make films for and about African-Americans, both men are two different people.
“My mom said, ‘I don’t understand you, everybody in church thinks something’s wrong with you — all your movies are about freaks. Why can’t you do movies like Tyler Perry?,” said Daniels, whose films include “Monsters Ball,” “Precious,” “The Paperboy,” “Shadowboxer” and “Lee Daniels’ The Butler.”
