Unless you’ve been living under a rock or doing your best to avoid Black Twitter (Black X…?), The Deliverance by Lee Daniels is the new film that everyone is talking about on social media at the moment.
In addition to a chillingly-good haunted house plot, the presence of Mo’Nique following her and Daniels’ reconciliation back in 2022 and an award-worthy lead performance by Golden Globe-winning singer/actress Andra Day, the masses have been in a chokehold over Hollywood living legend Glenn Close playing a role that no one could’ve expected: a hood white woman named Alberta.
Close, who’s just one award away from EGOT status, does an outstanding job at recreating herself into a religious cancer patient with a penchant for Black men and wigs that Tyler Perry could (and should!) take notes from; there’s no argument there. However, what has many scratching their heads is a tweet that Daniels sent out recently …