Exclusive: Lance Gross On His Return To Tyler Perry’s House Of Payne

After a some years off from television, Tyler Perry has brought back the original cast of “Tyler Perry’s House Of Payne” over to BET. Two half-hour episodes will air starting at 8 PM ET/PT. 

“TYLER PERRY’S HOUSE OF PAYNE,” returning for its seventh season, is a hilarious comedy about retired fire chief Curtis Payne (LaVan Davis) and his lovely wife Ella (Cassi Davis Patton) that picks up five years later, as they continue to navigate the problems of life with their quirky modern-day family.

“TYLER PERRY’S HOUSE OF PAYNE” stars LaVan Davis as Curtis Payne, Cassi Davis Patton as Ella Payne, Lance Gross as Calvin Payne, Demetria McKinney as Janine Payne, China Anne McClain as Jazmine Payne, Keshia Knight Pulliam as Miranda and Allen Payne as CJ Payne.

Gross is back as Calvin Payne the only child of Curtis and Ella.  He is a devoted father to Calvin Jr. and Christian.  Calvin has long struggled with finding his place but never lacks for trying.

For Gross, he’s carved out a nice career on the big and small screen in between with roles in other Tyler Perry productions such as the films Meet the Browns and Tyler Perry's Temptations: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor, as well as Our Family Wedding with Forest Whitaker, Oscar winner Matthew A. Cherry’s The Last Fall with Nicole Beharie, and When Love Kills: The Falicia Blakely Story. He recently had a 2-episode arc on the last season of Hawaii Five-0.

BlackFilmandTV.com’s Wilson Morales caught up with Gross as he spoke about his return to House of Payne and reprising the character Calvin Payne.