Breaking Down That Twist – Hollywood Life

If you happen to haven’t watched the brand new Tyler Perry film Straw, you’re about to see spoilers as a result of it’s all of the web is speaking about! The Netflix film, which premiered on June 6, 2025, was written, directed and produced by the filmmaker and stars Taraji P. Henson as single mom Janiyah Wiltkinson. The ending of the movie throws a serious curve ball at viewers to the purpose the place even Taraji admitted she wasn’t anticipating it to finish this manner.

“Once I was studying it, I used to be like, Oh! S**t!’” Taraji advised Decider in an interview printed after Straw’s premiere.

Beneath, Hollywood Life is breaking down all the ending of Straw. (Warning: spoilers are forward for the film Straw). 

What Is Tyler Perry’s Film Straw About?

Based on its tagline on IMDb, Straw follows a “single mom [who] navigates a collection of unlucky occasions, main her down an unexpected path the place she turns into embroiled in a state of affairs she by no means envisioned, discovering herself on the heart of suspicion in an detached world.”

Straw Film Ending Defined

On the finish of the movie, Janiyah receives a cal from her mom, who tells her that the FBI is at her house. She then says the stunning bombshell: Aria, Janiyah’s daughter, is useless and has been useless for all the day. Aria had a seizure the earlier night time and was hospitalized, however she died on the hospital.

A collection of flashbacks from the day floods, and viewers be taught that Janiyah was truly residing her day as if Aria was nonetheless alive. That is the explanation why the principal was stunned to see her at college, and in addition why Aria’s backpack was nonetheless on the home. The cellphone name that Janiyah bought from the varsity whereas at work was actually a cellphone name about her overdue payments, however Janiyah was too far gone at that time to simply accept actuality. She was residing in her personal world whereas her thoughts suppressed the trauma of her daughter’s demise.

Nicole additionally admits that the police had knowledgeable Janiyah that Aria had died, and was, due to this fact, conscious that Janiyah was experiencing a psychotic breakdown.

Taraji confessed that she was “blown away” whereas studying the script and was stunned on the ending identical to viewers. Whereas talking with Decider in an interview printed on June 6, 2025, the actress identified that all the pieces “made sense in [her character’s] actions.”

“As a result of what it confirmed me was that she snapped a very long time in the past. She snapped the day earlier than,” Taraji defined. “She was simply on computerized. She wasn’t even in her physique, to be fairly sincere. I simply performed the honesty of her residing the life, as if nothing occurred.”

Straw Film Forged

Along with Taraji, the remainder of the Straw forged options Sherri Shepherd as Nicole, Teyana Taylor as Detective Kay Raymond, Sinbad as Benny, Rockmond Dunbar as Chief Wilson, Ashley Versher as Tessa George, Mike Merrill as Detective Grimes and Glynn Turman as Richard.