Taraji P Henson POSES For NOH8!
“Empire” star Taraji P Henson POSES For NOH8 campaign in a newly released photo a non-profit organization that promotes marriage, gender and human equality in protest against The Beverly Hills Hotel.
Taraji P. Henson helps to bring awareness to the rights of the LGBT community and to end homophobia. In a recent interview with VOGUE Magazine, Taraji opened up about playing Cookie and her relationship with Jamal, her gay son.
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Here are some highlights from Taraji P. Henson’s VOGUE Magazine interview:
VOGUE: Where did you pull the emotions from the scene when you defended you gay son, Jamal on Empire?
“Once a mother; always a mother. I’m a mother in real life, so I don’t have to act. When it’s time to protect our child, as parents, we feel our kid’s pain harder than they do. I tried to explain that to my son. The closest he came to understanding was through his relationship with our dog. He said, I feel that way about Willy. We carry them for nine months. I could only imagine having a child that a father rejects.”
“I feel like Lucious rejects him out of fear. When he puts Jamal in the trash can, he wanted to throw him away before the world threw him away. He wanted to hide his son from everyone—the ugliness of being a black gay male to the world. Fear will do anything, and Cookie understands the pain on both sides. Cookie is never going to hate her child for being who he is, but she fears for his life, too, because he’s gay and black. It’s deep.”
Make sure you check out Taraji on “Empire”, Wednesdays at pm CT.
