Director Lee Daniels says working on the TV show, 'Empire,' on Fox was one of his worst work experiences...
Lee Daniels‘ background in independent film – Monster’s Ball, Precious – once had him wondering what it would be like to work for a studio, a curiosity that was finally satisfied when he made Empire for Fox.
Or maybe satisfied is the wrong word.
“Horrible. Absolutely the worst experience. Horrible!” the director-producer says in a new interview with The Film Stage. “But guess what? F*cking that money, money, money! I was able to put my kids through college and shit. So that in itself was worth it.”
Daniels, whose new Netflix horror movie The Deliverance stars Andra Day, Glenn Close, Aunjanue Ellis and Mo’Nique, said in the interview, “I don’t like staying in the same lane just as a creative. When I got into television, I really just wanted to be able to answer to suits. I wanted to know what that experience was like.”
“I only did Empire just so I could see what that experience was like,” he said.
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