“J.J [Abrams] called and said, ‘I’m a fan and would love for you to do my movie’ and I was said, ‘Great! I’ll call you back.’ I called my agent and was like, ‘Who is this guy’ and he said I need to look at his stuff. I was so impressed with what he does because it parallels a lot of my own stuff… He talked me into it and it’s a good thing I didn’t see the last Star Trek movie or I would have said no.”

Tyler Perry

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