Film crews are taking over downtown Macon this week for Tyler Perry’s latest production, “A Jazzman’s Blues.”
The film, which takes place from 1937 to 1987, is transforming Second Street into 1950s Chicago by changing business storefronts and by adding props of old mailboxes, telephone booths and fruit stands on the sidewalks of Cherry and Mulberry streets.
Macon Clay, which is normally a studio and gallery space for clay products, has turned its storefront into a meat market.
“It’s been fun. It’s been interesting. A lot of interesting people on the production team watching this street transform,” Macon Clay owner Amy McCullough told WMAZ.
A 15-year-old Macon Clay student said of the experience to WMAZ, “When we were in the inside, it was clay, but on the outside, it was a meat place. Real weird.”
According to Deadline, “A Jazzman’s Blues” follows an unsolved murder investigation that unveils a story of love, deceit and secrets. The film is scheduled to be released on Netflix this year.
