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3 unusual facts about Madea Goes to Jail


Bobbi Baker

Her work led Perry to cast her as the assistant district attorney in his film Madea Goes to Jail.

The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure

After seeing Madea Goes to Jail in a theater, where he saw how the audience members would shout out advice to the characters on screen, Viselman was partially inspired to create a children's film in the vein of Teletubbies with the interactive aspect, allowing the children to sing, dance, and respond to the characters on screen.

Toby Sells

Sells has worked on numerous films, including Dance of the Dead, The Signal, Phantasm II, Stomp the Yard, Dead Silence, Dark Remains, and most recently Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns and Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail.


What's Done in the Dark

Originally, Allen Payne who stars in Tyler Perry's House of Payne was supposed to star as Dr. Harris in this play and Cassi Davis who stars in Tyler Perry's House of Payne (along with Allen Payne), Madea Goes to Jail, and the play and movie version of Madea's Big Happy Family was supposed to star as Nurse Nancy in this play.


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