Cookie,Cookie,Cookie!!!Empire Cast Bring It For Vogue
The cast of Hip hop TV series,Empire ;Taraji P. Henson,Terrence Howard,Trai Byers, Jussie Smollett, and Bryshere Y. Gray pose for Vogue magazine which was released on Friday. Also,Empire creator Lee Daniels and guest star Naomi Campbell took part in the shoot.
Speaking with the publication,Creator Lee Danielstalks about the feisty Cookie and Terrence Howard talks about Jussie Smollett,his gay son on the show(that one cracked me up}…”Black people are going to change the channel’,lol. Read below;
On Cookie;
She was a gangster, basically – a corrupt politician in the sixties and seventies who got blacks to come out to vote. My earliest memory was her on the phone with Frank Rizzo, the mayor of Philly, and my grandmother saying, ”Motherf**ker, you better come down here with my money before I shoot yo ass.”’Back then you didn’t talk to white people like that.’
Terrence Howard talks gay;
I was raised behind the homophobic curtain. When I was like eight years old, my father stood me and my three brothers in front of him. ”Are any of y’all some sissies? If I find out any of you are some sissies, I’ll cut your throat.”
‘From the moment when they had the guys kissing in the first 20 minutes of the pilot, I was like, ”You’re going to lose everyone. Black people are going to change the channel! Men are going to change the channel!”
‘I had the same views that had been programmed into so many of us. And then Jussie became my best, best friend. It was like seeing life from a whole other perspective. I was never a bigot before. At least I didn’t think I was. But I was definitely prejudiced. I wouldn’t have allowed my son to have a gay friend . . . in the past. And now I’d be like, ”That’s your friend.” Something’s changed in me.’