Hi Lynn Whitfield! I've been quite scared to post ablog about you. Why you might ask? Well, I think you are crazy. You might not actually be crazy but, just about all of your film output is basically crazy black women. Ok Josephine Baker was "eccentric" or something kinder and gentler than flat out crazy. But every role since it seems you seem to play irrational crazy black women, even in lame Chris Rock comedies like Head of State. So, I'm starting to think there is no separation between reality and fiction. You are in fact a crazy black woman.
How could you credibly play that mother character in Madea's Family Reunion? I swear you are going to hell for that role, as is Tyler Perry for writing that script. We all know that there are issues with sexual abuse in families, but did you have to enjoy playing a woman so cruel, so vindictive to her own daughters? You relished that role like your were Bette Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane! There was NOTHING to enjoy in that role, yet you played it to the back audience.
See why I think you might be crazy...
Throw in A Thin Line Between Love and Hate and Eve's Bayou, and a couple of other crazy lady TV movies, and your acting legacy is pretty much sealed, as the Crazy Negro Lady. Why don't you just start hurling cats at your co-stars your next movie?
Or do us all a favor and stop acting. Let some other Blacktress take over the Crazy Negro lady for a good 6 years. Soon enough you can play the crazy negro lady confined to a wheelchair, and therefore, will be less threatening.
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