Taraji P. Henson fired her whole team for failing to capitalise on ‘Empire’ success
Taraji P. Henson has revealed that she once fired her whole team of staff for failing to capitalise on the success of Empire.The actress played Cookie Lyon, the drug dealer-turned-entrepreneur and wife of Terrence Howard’s Lucious Lyon, in all six seasons of the Fox series.In a new interview with the SAG-AFTRA Foundation, she was asked about the best business move she had taken in her career to date.“Firing everybody after Cookie,” she replied. “Everybody had to fuckin’ go.