Tyler Perry Offers Geoffrey Owens a Job, Maybe
by EG
After Fox News and others appeared to mock The Cosby Show alum Geoffrey Owens for working a regular job at Trader Joe's, lots of Hollywood insiders offered Owens their support. That includes prolific producer Tyler Perry, who seemed to offer Owens an acting job on social media. Read on for details.
Via People.
Geoffrey Owens could be making a return to TV after quitting his job at Trader Joes.
Last week, the Daily Mail and Fox News published photos — snapped by a shopper — of The Cosby Show alum bagging groceries at a Trader Joe’s in New Jersey.
Owens, who worked at the grocery store for 15 months, first took the job because he wanted “flexibility” in order to stay in the entertainment business; he’s since quit over all the attention.
But his unemployment period might not be for too long. On Tuesday, filmmaker Tyler Perry offered Owens, 57, a job on an OWN drama.
“#GeoffreyOwens I’m about to start shootings OWN’s number one drama next week! Come join us!!!” Perry tweeted.
“I have so much respect for people who hustle between gigs,” he continued. “The measure of a true artist.”
“That was kind of cool,” Owens told Entertainment Tonight on Tuesday about Perry’s offering. “I mean, that kind of sounded like he was saying, ‘Come work with me.’ I’m so, like, skeptical. Like, really? Are you actually saying come work with me? Because we’ve never worked together before. So, that’s a very, very generous thing for him to say. And we’ll see what happens with that. But, that’s encouraging.”
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