Tika Sumpter, Chad Michael Murray, Eric Lively join Tyler Perry’s A Madea ChristmasPosted by Wilson Morales
January 13, 2013
Tika Sumpter, Chad Michael Murray, Eric Lively, Larry the Cable Guy, and Kathy Najimy have joined the cast of Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas, which will be released in December 13.
Perry is directing, adapting his own play and producing with Ozzie Areu and Matt Moore. Lionsgate is releasing.
Madea gets coaxed into helping a friend pay her daughter a surprise visit in the country for Christmas, but the biggest surprise is what they’ll find when they arrive. As the small, rural town prepares for its annual Christmas Carnival, new secrets are revealed and old relationships are tested while Madea dishes her own brand of Christmas Spirit to all.
Sumpter is one of his son’s teachers, someone Murray dislikes, while Larry is the quirky patriarch of the white side of an interracial marriage.
Lively will play the husband of the daughter while Murray will play the town bully, a redneck type who tries to control his wife and son. Sumpter is one of his son’s teachers, someone Murray dislikes, while Larry is the quirky patriarch of the white side of an interracial marriage.
Sumpter appeared in the Whitney Houston movie Sparkle and will next be seen in Universal’s Ride Along with Ice Cube and Kevin Hart.
Murray stars in A Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia, which Lionsgate opens Feb. 1, and is in negotiations to join Nicolas Cage in the reboot of the Left Behind movie series. Larry the Cable Guy, whose real name is Daniel Lawrence Whitney, is mostly known for his stand-up comedy work and his voicework as Mater in Disney/Pixar’s Cars franchise. Najimy was last seen in The Guilt Trip. Lively’s past credits include “American Pie” and “The Breed.”
