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In this ESSENCE Now interview, Hollywood director Lee Daniels dishes on his love life and what he’s learned in his relationship with partner Jhalil Fisher.
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00:00you've been in a relationship with your partner now for too long it's not that long it's been
00:10seven years yes seven blissful years i know it's been great it's been great fantastic yeah yeah what
00:16have you learned about yourself that i'm old you are not old 57 years young out here what have you
00:24learned about yourself in that relationship to try to keep it young to try to keep it young because
00:29he's much younger than me and so between him and my kids they keep me they keep me motivated they keep
00:35me current and they keep me to the streets now your kids are 21 now 21 twins twins yeah i just forget
00:43that they are they are strong versions of me so she's in paris in film school spending all my money
00:49i love it you better spend your daddy's money he decided to start modeling and all of a sudden he's
00:56like his first job was with kanye oh and i call kind of kanye did you know that was my son no so he's
01:03just doing it on his own he's abracombri and fitch is that abracombri and fitch yeah that's right
01:08that's right he's got a big contact yes i am so he's doing it all on his own and he doesn't really
01:13want to model he's using it as a vehicle to save money so that he can promote clubs yes oh i love
01:22that so new york when you and danny super young in this relationship so i can do you foresee having
01:28children or adapting children or having more children no no you said i wanted an exaggerated
01:34way no i want to i want another kid i do want another kid i think i want one more kid i think that
01:38i'm a little nervous about bringing anybody into this world right now we are in a time where that
01:44look i did this new star show star um because
01:52taraji myself and terrence we both have kids we have they were 19 and um terrence's kid was and i
01:59don't forget what part of the country my kid was in dc taraji's kid was in la all three kids were
02:05decent kids going to great schools and were in trouble with the law what and i instinctively felt
02:14something was wrong this is pre-trump coming in and i knew that something was wrong something was
02:20something dark was happening we was going a dark cloud was coming in and so and that was part of
02:25the the brewings and the makings of star i knew that we were going to the black lives matters uh the
02:32issues that we address in star were um really derivative of of what i was feeling like when we
02:39collectively got together and saw that our sons were in trouble so how do you think the reception
02:44has been do you think people receive that you know the show is entertainment but there's some
02:48strong messages that are being in all of my work there is a message there's a message um there are
02:54many messages about how we live how we communicate and in this time right now um i think uh yeah yeah
03:02i think that the message the message is that we just have to you know there's a reason i try to i try
03:08to bring faith back into what we do because along the way we i know my kids have forgotten about church how important it is
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