Five years after Jussie Smollett's alleged hate crime hoax, Lee Daniels is open to re-teaming with the actor.
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The Academy Award nominee said Smollett was “like a son” to him after they worked together on his hit Fox series Empire, which ran for six seasons from 2015 to 2020, and Daniels would “work with him again.”
"I would cast him in something," Daniels said on iHeart Radio's The Breakfast Club. "He was a son to me. And he also represented me. And he also represented the movement that I was trying to start, that I didn't know I was starting.
He added: "I was so busy, worried about Cookie's hat and the music we were playing [on Empire ], this was for Insecure , this was for Black Panther . We were just getting started. I was so worried about getting everything right that I didn't know what was happening in the zeitgeist."
