Taraji P. Henson Is a Struggling Single Mom Pushed to the Brink in Tense Trailer for Tyler Perry’s Straw

Taraji P. Henson has hit her verge of collapse.

The first trailer for Tyler Perry‘s Straw, launched Wednesday, May 14, sees the 54-year-old actress painting Janiyah, a unmarried mom who will do the rest to lend a hand her in poor health daughter.

“I didn’t mean to do this. Something inside of me broke,” Henson says within the trailer whilst preserving a gun inside of a financial institution. As police officers encompass the development, Sherri Shepherd‘s personality approaches Janiyah, telling her, “We need to figure this out. I don’t want you to get hurt.”

The film additionally stars Teyana Taylor, Glynn Turman, Sinbad, and Rockmond Dunbar.

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“A single mother’s world unravels in chaos as her day goes from bad to worse to catastrophic as she struggles to care for her ill daughter,” the professional synopsis reads. “Pushed to the brink by a world that seems indifferent to her existence, she’s forced to confront impossible choices in a society that offers her no safety net.”

Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Henson shared what drew her to the function and why she pertains to her personality Janiyah.

“This one is a thriller, and I’ve never done a thriller with Tyler, so I was interested in that,” Henson mentioned. “There’s a twist that happens that you don’t see coming — a whodunnit, in a sense. I can’t give away too much, so I’m trying to talk around it, but there’s some crazy twists and turns in there that’ll take you by surprise, that absolutely take the character by surprise.”

As crisis moves over and over, Janiyah’s focal point stays on her daughter.

“Janiyah is a woman who doesn’t have much in life, but she has a lot of love for her child,” the Color Purple actress shared.

“I’m a single mother, so I understood her journey and her struggles. She’s a single mother trying to make the best of the cards that she’s been dealt in life. She finds herself in a horrible situation where one of those days, you wake up and everything that could go wrong goes wrong. It’s about how she maneuvers through it,” Henson added.

Straw begins streaming on Netflix on June 6.