00:00These characters have gone through so much.
00:07How many more seasons of Empire do you think we have?
00:09How many more seasons?
00:10Yeah.
00:10How many more seasons?
00:11Yeah.
00:13I don't know.
00:14Maybe three, four.
00:16Okay.
00:16I don't know.
00:17As long as I'll keep watching.
00:19Do you know, do you have a vague idea or an idea of where you want the characters to end up?
00:24Uh, I want to do a movie.
00:27Tell me.
00:28Oh, really?
00:28I'm not doing a movie about them.
00:30You know what I mean?
00:30I just started thinking that, you know, we were talking, we're all together, uh, because
00:35this show's about to premiere and we were doing press and we were thinking, what about, how
00:39interesting would it be to have a movie?
00:41Oh.
00:41You know what I mean?
00:42It was just a moment.
00:43Yeah.
00:44Just to, you know, because they're all actors and, you know, they come from, uh, they're
00:47all film actors.
00:48So I was thinking about that.
00:49But how, how do I see them ending up?
00:51I don't know.
00:52You know, uh, Lucius and Cookie together, probably, back together.
00:58Mm-hmm.
00:58And, uh, peace with all the family.
01:01That's how I would like for it to all end up.
01:03Wouldn't it be nice to end up?
01:05Yes.
01:06In a nice red bow.
01:07Yeah.
01:09I'm with it.
01:09It ain't gonna happen like that.
01:10Uh-huh.
01:11But, that's not real life, but we'd like to see that.
01:14I'd like to see that.
01:15But I do love the idea of a movie.
01:16Do you think the movie will be centered around Cookie or?
01:18I don't know.
01:18I have to speak to my partner, Danny.
01:20This is all new.
01:21This is, like, just happening.
01:21Oh, this is, like, in the last...
01:22Just yesterday.
01:22Just yesterday.
01:23We were talking about, like, hey, guys, how about a movie?
01:25What do you think?
01:26Mm-hmm.
01:27You know?
01:27Mm-hmm.
01:27So, um, I don't know.
01:29Like, I have to think of subject matter and, you know, what the idea is.
01:32But we do know that these characters are beloved.
01:34Yeah.
01:35I love the way that you and Danny work together, right?
01:37Because, Danny, you and him just seem to vibe and get each other.
01:41It's a good thing to have a good writing partner.
01:43Isn't it, though?
01:43Because he's structurally, he's, like, right in the pocket, and I come up with these incredible, zany characters that really are a part of my life or part of my past.
01:53So the combination is a Molotov cocktail.
01:55I can't do it by myself.
01:57Yeah.
01:57Yeah, I need a partner because I've got many things going around, so I need one person to keep me focused.
02:03Mm-hmm.
02:03Focused, you know?
02:04Yes.
02:04So I can spread my seed other places.
02:07This is finding the right people around you.
02:08And trusting.
02:09And trusting, that's it.
02:10Now, going back to what you were saying, though, a lot of Empire, or specifically Lucius, the stuff that you went through, like, you know, more serious subject matter is getting thrown in the trash can and all of that.
02:21Everybody keeps talking about that, you know.
02:22They do, because it was so big.
02:24You know, it's so funny.
02:25Like, it's no different than, you know, my mother beating me with a broom.
02:30You know what I mean?
02:31Where Hakeem was beaten with a broom.
02:33I remember the network was all in an uproar.
02:36This is child abuse.
02:37I said, I guess I was abused then, because my mother beat me with a broom.
02:41It is what it is, you know?
02:42People talk about, like, oh, how historic it was, the two men kissing.
02:50Yeah.
02:51But we really, I thought it was just as historic to talk about Andre's problem with mental health, because we don't care to talk about it in our culture.
03:00And it's really important to talk about that, as important as it is to talk about homophobia.
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