Eager to play someone scorned and vengeful, the busy „Empire“ actress agreed to shoot the movie on a tight eight-day schedule.<\/b>
\nNEW YORK \u2014 Tyler Perry says he knew if he was going to have Taraji P. Henson star in his latest film, he would have to work fast.
The writer-director filmed \u201cTyler Perry\u2019s Acrimony,\u201d his third collaboration with the actress, in a mere eight days.
Perry said it was easier to film the revenge thriller around Henson\u2019s \u201cEmpire\u201d shooting schedule because she comes in prepared for a role, and she\u2019s especially good at playing bad characters.
\u201cShe\u2019s a director\u2019s dream,\u201d he said at the film\u2019s premiere earlier this week. \u201cShe knows exactly what you want. She knows exactly where to go.\u201d
The actress plays a woman who becomes unhinged after being scorned by her ex-husband. \u201cAcrimony\u201d grossed $17.1 million domestically in its opening weekend, second only to the new Steven Spielberg blockbuster \u201cReady Player One\u201d with $41.2 million.
The film represented a new challenge for both Perry and Henson.
Henson said she was enticed to the project by Perry\u2019s pitch that it would be her chance to play a character type she\u2019d wanted to play for years.
\u201cWe all saw \u2018Fatal Attraction,\u2019 right? And as a young actor with dreams, that was always a character I wanted to play,\u201d Henson said. \u201cWhenever you see a great actor portray a role, it\u2019s always on the bucket list to actors. I know for me it was, so that\u2019s the thing that made me sign on because when he called he said this is your Glenn Close in \u2018Fatal Attraction\u2019 moment. And I was like, \u2018I\u2019m down.\u2019 \u201d
The film represented the opportunity for Perry to return to a genre he became fascinated with while filming his role in \u201cGone Girl,\u201d director David Fincher\u2019s adaptation of the novel.
\u201cAfter doing \u2018Gone Girl,\u2019 I wanted to do a thriller. I wanted to see and show what I learned on that film, and what just pretty much felt like I was in school,\u201d he said.
One thing Perry didn\u2019t emulate was Fincher\u2019s meticulous style that features multiple takes of scenes. He said his production was faster because there were fewer people making decisions.
\u201cWhen it\u2019s just me making the decision and choices, it cuts down a lot of the time. So we moved really fast. I didn\u2019t have a whole lot of time with Taraji because she was shooting \u2018Empire,\u2019 so we had to do it quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n

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