“CBS This Morning” co-host Gayle King went behind the scenes at Tyler Perry’s historic 330-acre movie studio complex in Atlanta. The site features a dozen soundstages named after black icons in Hollywood.  The studios is on the former Fort McPherson military base, and it was used as a Confederate Army base during the American Civil War.

Below, you get to see the brand new studios, and reflect on how far Tyler Perry has come from his childhood to today.

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