Taraji P. Henson is hitting back at all of the rumored drama surrounding The Color Purple.
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during a live Q&A session on Friday with the film’s cast. According to the actress, they also were not given any food. “You corrected it for us,” Brooks told Winfrey, 69, who said she heard about the situation from Henson, 53.
“This is my first Studio film so sometimes you do come in just saying ‘Okay well I’m going to just take whatever they give me, I’m just happy to be here’ you know, but [Henson] spoke up for us and you showed me how to do that,” Brooks elaborated. In a separate interview, Henson also revealed that she also considered leaving the project after she and several other cast members were given rental cars instead of drivers. “They gave us rental cars, and I was like, ‘I can’t drive myself to set in Atlanta.’ This is insurance liability, it’s dangerous.
Now they robbing people,” Henson said during an interview with The New York Times. “What do I look like, taking myself to work by myself in a rental car? So I was like, ‘Can I get a driver or security to take me?’ I’m not asking for the moon. They’re like, ‘Well, if we do it for you, we got to do it for everybody.’” According to the “Empire” alum, she fought back against the decision.
“Well, do it for everybody! It’s stuff like that, stuff I shouldn’t have to fight for,” she said. “I was on the set of ‘Empire’ fighting for trailers that wasn’t infested with bugs.”Henson told the outlet that these types of situations take a toll on her “because you fight so hard to establish a name for yourself and be respected in this town to no avail.”“With Black films, they just don’t want to take us overseas and I don’t understand that,” she added. “Black translates all over the world, so why wouldn’t the movies? I have a following in China of all places.”“Y’all not
.Taraji P. Henson is hitting back at all of the rumored drama surrounding The Color Purple.
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