Taraji P. Henson fired her total workforce after “Empire.”
The actor was left pissed off that she had no work lined up after the large success of the Netflix musical drama, wherein she starred as Loretha “Cookie” Lyon, née Holloway, from 2015 to 2020. So, she determined to eliminate the enterprise individuals round her.
“Everyone needed to go. The place is my deal? The place’s my industrial? Cookie was on the high of the style recreation. The place is my endorsement? What did you’ve got arrange for after this?” she stated in a dialog with Selection’s Angelique Jackson. “That’s why you all haven’t seen me in so lengthy. They’d nothing arrange.”
Her workforce had prompt she do “one other Cookie present,” nevertheless it didn’t go as deliberate.
“I stated, ‘I’ll do it, nevertheless it needs to be proper. … She’s too beloved for y’all to [mess] it up.’ And so, once they didn’t get it proper, I used to be like, ‘Effectively, that’s it,’ and so they had nothing else. [That’s when I said], ‘You’re all fired.’”
The Golden Globe winner additionally spoke about not being keen to just accept lower than what she is price after being provided much less cash than her White co-stars.
“I put within the work in order that I may have a voice in order that I may say no [to unfair offers] in order that I may combat for these coming in behind me. You possibly can’t simply pay me something ’trigger I’ll say no,” she shared.
