Taraji P. Henson Says She Fired Her Entire Team After They Failed to Capitalize on Her Success as ‘Empire’s’ Cookie Lyon

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1. In the article she says that “uncle Sam gets 50%” so I hope the first person she fired was her accountant.

2. What’s with these Empire people asking for more money? Nobody thinks that acting is that hard y’all.

3. Should’ve taken the Lauren Hill approach on taxes…

4. She was crying over having to pay millions in taxes and to her management, leaving her with fewer millions than she feels she deserves. How heartbreaking.

5. Hmm, I wonder if she is hard to work with?

6. She was great in Person of Interest too

7. Hooo boy, cry us a river.

8. Is she going to play the same character for the next 20 years?

9. mieeerrdaa that whole cast se fue a la chingada

10. Empire was one of the craziest eight ball plot pivots I’ve ever seen.

11. Pay equity for Black women across industries is still lagging. She’s also a talent (*Hidden Figures*, *Hustle & Flow*, *Empire*, *Person of Interest*). If she advocates for herself successfully, it improves contracts for all Black women in acting moving forward.

12. Doesn’t she still side with that con artist, Jussie Smollett?

13. I just heard Quentin Tarantino talk about Laurence Fishburne’s team turning down Pulp Fiction and Die Hard 2 cuz they had bigger plans. Maybe there’s some dumb shit going on behind the scenes; or maybe she too big headed. My bet is on the latter

14. She’s such garbage.

15. good luck finding a good next team