Tyrese is hoping to reunite with his Baby Boy co-star Taraji P. Henson for an upcoming tour inspired by his Beautiful Pain project.
On Tuesday (July 6), the R&B singer and actor spoke with TMZ at LAX, where he shared that he is getting ready to bring his 2024 double album to life with a 40-city nationwide tour. He described the production as a “stage play” that will combine both acting and singing.
The show will be based on Gibson’s latest album, which explores deeply personal experiences, including relationships, divorce, and the loss of his mother, Priscilla Murray Gibson, who passed away in 2022.
If Gibson is able to bring Henson on board for the upcoming shows, the reunion would coincide with the 25th anniversary of Baby Boy, which was directed by the late John Singleton.
“We’re calling it ‘the experience.’ It ain’t going to be nobody standing there with no curtain. It’s going to be like nothing you’ve ever seen,” Gibson told TMZ while discussing the vision for the tour. “And it’s been really stressful putting that together because it’s going to be really unpacking life, love, divorce, finding love again, losing my mom, just everything that happened during that Beautiful Pain album and bringing it to the people.”
Gibson later shared his hopes of having Henson join him, adding, “I hope, if she sees this video, I hope I can do the tour with Taraji.”
Earlier this spring, a resurfaced clip from Making Space with Hoda Kotb showed Henson reflecting on her career after Baby Boy and opening up about not securing a long-running franchise role like her co-star.
“After Baby Boy, Tyrese booked two franchise films, huge. Transformers and Fast and Furious. I still have not booked my franchise film. Been in the game almost 30 years. No franchise film,” she said.
“I’m not gonna cry about it. I mean… I know what it is now. I’m on the other side of the table now. You can’t hurt my feelings anymore because now I know there’s politics involved,” Henson continued.
Gibson later responded to the comments during an April appearance on The Breakfast Club, describing Henson’s experience as “the unfortunate reality of Black Hollywood in general and Black women in Hollywood.”
Henson is currently starring on Broadway in Joe Turner’s Come and Gone at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, sharing the stage with Cedric the Entertainer under the direction of Debbie Allen. The production, which officially opened on April 25, is scheduled to run through July 26.
