When asked what Tyler Perry’s The Marriage Counselor is about, Palmer Williams Jr., says it’s an instruction manual about how to live a better life. “It’s a relationship story about good and evil. It’s about a hard-working accountant who is married to a marriage counselor who feels neglected.”
Williams, who plays Floyd Stanley Jackson, is the comic relief for the show. “I have some interesting parenting skills … I’m an herbalist,” Williams says. “In other words, I smoke weed. I try to give bits of wisdom and knowledge to my son in between my inebriated state. I happen to be high most of the time, but I do have some pretty intelligent things that I tell him that he [can either] take to heart or ignore.”
His character is deeply flawed, but real, which is a hallmark of Tyler Perry shows. “He is writing through his pain that he’s experienced through life,” Williams says. “He’s writing about the human race as opposed to the black race.”
Williams hopes the audience will learn from these human stories. “Don’t take yourself too seriously. Look at yourself on this stage. Identify with it, [make] changes and [show] some altruism, unselfish concern for the welfare for others.”
“Love can conquer all if you have good sense.”
Tyler Perry’s The Marriage Counselor plays at The Fabulous Fox Theatre Sept. 11-14.
