Tyler Perry Considered Turning Down Role as Lilibet’s Godfather If He Had to Go to U.K. for Christening

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An offer he could nearly refuse? Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were eager to ask Tyler Perry to serve as their daughter Lilibet’s godparent, but the Madea star was initially wary about accepting the role.“We’ll call [and] we’ll chat, and we’ll talk about silly things and they were pretty serious on the phone.

I go, ‘OK, what’s going on?’ They said, ‘Well, we’d like for you to be Lili’s godfather.’ I go, ‘Whoa.’ I had to take a minute to take that in,” Perry, 53, said in the sixth episode of Harry & Meghan, which dropped on Thursday, December 15.The A Jazzman’s Blues actor had never met the Duke of Sussex, 38, and the Duchess of Sussex, 41, before 2020 when he offered his Los Angeles residence to the pair after they left Canada amid their royal step-down.

Since then, the trio have become close pals.“I thought, ‘I’d be honored. I’d absolutely be honored,’” Perry recalled in the Netflix docuseries about becoming a mentor for Lili, who was born in June 2021. “And I got off the phone, took it all in and then called them back.

I go, ‘Uh, hold on a second. Does this mean we got to go over there and do all of that in the church with [the royal family] and figure all that out?