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"It means a great deal to me," Janet Jackson said of her starring role in Tyler Perry's latest movie, 'Why Did I Get Married?' -- opening in theaters this Friday.
"I wanted to get back into acting and wanted to find the right script and the right role," she said of her role as Patricia, a therapist who grapples with her very own personal demons of the past.
Jackson 's last film was 2000's ''The Nutty Professor II: The Klumps,' where she played opposite Eddie Murphy in a super-sized likeness of an overweight teacher and his overweight family members.
The 41-year-old pop music icon said the main reason why she chose to star in Perry's mature romantic comedy was for the fact that she would appear in it alongside an array of actors including Malik Yoba, Sharon Leal, Tasha Smith, Richard T. Jones, Denise Boute, Michael Jai White and others.
"I didn't want to be a lead for a film because I didn't have enough time to dedicate to it at that point," she explained, adding, "so trying to find an ensemble piece that I felt really good about [made it] perfect" There was a major time issue too: The multiple Grammy Award winner revealed that Perry (who struck box-office gold with his first two films 'Diary of a Mad Black Woman' and 'Madea's Family Reunion.') reached out to her less than a week before principal photography of 'Married' was set to begin.
"So there was no time to prep ... those were the things that kept me up at night," she added.
