look where we made it, girl

Taraji P. Henson photographed by Robbie Fimmano for InStyle Magazine (January 2019)

“I love the art of acting, so I don’t care if I’m in a movie with 10 people, two people, or by myself. I just really enjoy it.”

I’ve had grown men tweet me and say, ‘I wish I had the balls to walk in my board meeting like Cookie.’ Even if you don’t have the guts to stand up and let your inner Cookie roar, we all have it in us. It doesn’t matter the color, the sexual orientation.

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In a pre-Christmas interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Henson said she’s been “begging and pleading my connections and doing whatever I can to make this movie the best it can be. I don’t just put my name on stuff just to say it; I get down and dirty. [Studios] never expect [black films] to do well overseas. Meanwhile, you go overseas and what do you see? People trying to look like African-Americans with Afros and dressing in hip-hop fashions. To say that black culture doesn’t sell well overseas, that’s a lie. Somebody just doesn’t want to do their job and promote the film overseas. Do you not have people streaming my Christmas specials in Australia? Come on, y’all! I don’t understand the thinking. Send me over there, and if it fails, then we don’t do it again, but why not try? If I knew this movie was gonna make money domestically, I would try to get more money overseas. It’s business!”