Lena Younger (Mama)

She is a woman in her early sixties, full-bodied and strong. She is one of those women of a certain grace and beauty who wear it unobtrusively that it takes a while to notice. Her dark brown hair is surrounded by the total whiteness of her hair, and being a woman who has adjusted to many things in life and over-come many more, her face is full of strength. She has a strong faith and she still keep her eyes lit and full of interest and expectancy. She is a beautiful woman and her speech is careless as her carriage is precise. However, her voice is not so much quiet as simply soft. She loves the garden very much. Her motivations are her family and the middle class working people. However, her family is very important to her. She has anger problems and at times problems solutions get physical. She is also more like a life giver and a problem fixer. However, she is a domestic worker. Her husband passed away due to working himself to death. As she would often say “There is always something left to love. And if you ain’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing. The time to love somebody is not when they are in a good is when they are in a bad position.” She also said the following when her son stood up for himself for the first time like a man would, “He finally come into his manhood today, didn’t he? Kind of like a rainbow after the rain.” I picked Malcolm Turner who plays the role of Martin Lawrence who disguises as Big Momma in the film Big Momma’s House 2 to play the role of Lena Younger (Mama). I believe that he is just the great person to play the understandable role which Lena played on the play due to his experiences when it comes to playing an elderly lady role.