Hollywood film maker Tyler Perry had posted across his social media handles his newly released movie ‘Straw’ that will air on Netflix on June 6, starring American actress Taraji P. Henson, Sherri Shepherd, Teyana Taylor, Glynn Turman, Sinbad, and Rockmond Dunbar.
The movie producer wrote: “IM IN MY BAG YALL!! This movie is so good. I mean so good! I can’t wait for y’all to see it.”
Henson stars in Straw as Janiyah, a struggling single mother caught up in a chaotic conspiracy that forces her to make impossible choices to care for her sick daughter.
Henson in an interview had described the movie plot: “The subject matter is a bit dark, so I was happy to only live in this character’s world for four days, because that energy is transferable, and it kind of sticks with you. So I was happy to get in and get out real quick. And it was very different from any other character I’ve ever played.”
The actress played the role of Janiyah who was trying to care for her daughter, but she gets embroiled in a larger-than-life catastrophe that goes from bad to worse.
“All she’s trying to do is cash her check and pay for her daughter’s lunch. If you’re a struggling single mother, you can’t always pay for that regular lunch, and children who can’t afford that regular lunch get a separate lunch. And you know what happens then? Kids start teasing your kid. As parents, we feel our children’s pain deeper than them, and so that meant a lot to her. She’s like, ‘I just need to go make sure my baby eats the regular lunch so she’s not teased.'”
While trying to cash a check, Janiyah was wrongfully accused of attempting to rob the bank: “A whole lot has happened before that, though,” Henson explains.
“Janiyah is a woman who doesn’t have much in life, but she has a lot of love for her child,” Henson says. “I’m a single mother, so I understood her journey and her struggles. She’s a single mother trying to make the best of the cards that she’s been dealt in life. She finds herself in a horrible situation where one of those days, you wake up and everything that could go wrong goes wrong. It’s about how she maneuvers through it.” Henson added.





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