: NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Little Rudy from "The Cosby Show" all grown up and playing a hooker? Yes indeed, thanks to Tyler Perry.
Keshia Knight Pulliam will star as an imprisoned prostitute in "Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail." Derek Luke also stars in the Lionsgate comedy, which is set to begin filming in Atlanta next month for a tentative early 2009 release.
Writer-director Perry returns to the front of the camera as the irrepressible matriarch Madea, whose penchant for trouble-making lands her behind bars. She comes to the rescue of Candy (Pulliam), a fellow inmate preyed upon by a large woman. Luke will play an attorney who has a past with Candy.
Pulliam, 29, recently appeared in Perry's TBS series "House of Payne" and is launching an Atlanta-based production company for film and television projects that she has in development. She played Bill Cosby's lovable daughter Rudy Huxtable in NBC's ratings smash "The Cosby Show."
Luke, who made his screen debut as the title character in "Antwone Fisher," played opposite Robert Redford in "Lions for Lambs."
She aint satisfied with being a Delta and a Master's Degree huh? Love that camera up her short skirt. She gotta prove that her career isn't washed up but yet her education is set?
Girl keep your ass out of Hollyweird if you can. Next thing you know her hot ass will be marrying Bill Maher. Sit down Rudy and make your degree work.
@ RighteousMadame
YOU SOUND LIKE A FUGGIN CRACKA! WHAT THE FUKK DOES HER HAVING A MASTER'S AND BN A DELTA HAVE 2 DO WITH HER CONTINUING TO ACT?!! DID YOU KNOW THAT HILL HARPER (DO U KNOW WHO THAT IS?)HAS A MASTER'S FROM HARVARD?!! IS HE SUPPOSED 2 STOP ACTING, TOO?! KKP PROBABLY GETS MORE $$$ IN ROYALTY CHECKS THAT MOST OF THE "B-LISTERS" IN "HOLLYWEIRD."
If I Recall MTO, Halle Berry Played a Damn Crackhead TWICE Early In Her Career!!!
She's doing what she gotta do to make ends meet...every role ain't gone be sweet.
Look at Will Smith he went from kissing a man in one movie to multi-million dollar flicks.
BTW...he asked Denzel would he do a role like dat, Denzel said "hell no!" lol
Keshia gotta get in were she fit in tho, ya dig.
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I wish I could see her in more legitimate movies roles and be up there with the likes of Gabrielle, Angela, Halle and others. The bad thing for her is because everyone knows her as Lil Rudy from Cosby, she'll never be able to live that down and get serious, legit acting roles. She's still young. I want her to blow up again.
THIS MIGHT BE THE ROLE THAT LAUNCHES HER CAREER IN ANOTHER DIRECTION. I HOPE SHE CAN PULL IT OFF THOUGH. I MET HER IN PERSON AND SHE'S A CUTE GIRL FOR REAL. HER ACTING ISN'T THE BEST THOUGH, STILL I'LL WAIT UNTIL I SEE PREVIEWS OR SOMETHING. I'M ROOTING FOR HER THOUGH. AND I DON'T KNOW WHY PEOPLE ARE CALLING HER A HOE. THAT'S SO STUPID, YOU DONT' EVEN KNOW HER. I MET HER AND SHE SEEMED REALLY SWEET.
What the...... she's an ACTRESS! how would she be degrading herself?? that makes no sense, people need to learn to seperate on screen characters that actors/actresses play from the real life person that they really are, geez.
Also @ MissjazZi- I'm not sure if you're talking about Keisha Knight maybe you're confusing her with another child star actor I heard that the girl who used to play on "Family Matters" as Judy had a low budget porn out because she was on the Tyra Banks show oneday and she stated she needed the money, I guess that's probably who you might be referring too?
Keisha is a beautiful young lady. Under Bill's advice on the set, all of the Cosby "kids" have turned out extremely well in the business. No drugs, no tabloid rumors, innuendos or lies. Keisha is expanding her acting abilities by playing a hooker. It should be funny. I love Madea.
If Tyler ever gets married, he's going to have his wife cracking up all the time if he uses that Madea voice periodically.
focus Flag post Keisha is a beautiful young lady. Under Bill's advice on the set, all of the Cosby "kids" have turned out extremely well in the business. No drugs, no tabloid rumors, innuendos or lies. Keisha is expanding her acting abilities by playing a hooker. It should be funny. I love Madea.
If Tyler ever gets married, he's going to have his wife cracking up all the time if he uses that Madea voice periodically.
FALSE. RUDY DID DRUGS OR AT LEAST WAS ACCUSED OF DOING IT
AND LETS NOT FORGET LISA BONET WAS TROUBLE FOR THE COSBY SHOW...HER AND "BILL" DID NOT SEE EYE TO EYE..ESPECIALLY SINCE SHE POSED NUDE TO DESTROY HER IMAGE ON THE COSBY SHOW.
you people act like she's really hooking. she's ACTING! did you really think Halle was a crackhead? she also was ACTING. BTW, it was Judy from Family Matters that used to do porn, not Rudy from the Cosby Show. Keisha was just in one music video and that was Chingy's "One Call Away"(that's the only one I know of) so she's not a video ho.
