Lee Wants To Make A Black “Dynasty”
Lee Daniels is going to do a TV show for Fox called “Empire.” (Modest little title, eh?) A collaboration with “The Butler” writer Danny Strong, “Empire” stars Taraji P. Henson as Cookie Lyon, the ex-wife of Lucious Lyon (Terrence Howard), who heads the hip-hop record label at the center of the series. In this new interview, Daniels once again shows himself incapable of doing an interview without mentioning Oprah Winfrey. He also brings his usual high spirits to the exchange. Of making “Empire,” he says: ‘I wanted to make a black “Dynasty.” You sit there and go, “No, this bitch didn’t!”‘
