"Empire" TV series cast can celebrate all they want.
For another week, the Fox musical drama series broken its previous record, attracting 11.30 million viewers and beating usual big players like "Criminal Minds," "Modern Family," "Law and Order," and "The 100" based on data gathered by Zap2It.
Inside the show, the characters also showed higher level of brotherly love, more mommy issues, and intensifying rivalry between Cookie (Taraji Henson) and Rhonda (Kaitlin Doubleday).
The Lyon brothers and their parents' quest to give them a good life is pretty much the show in a nutshell.
The kids are all talented, whether in music or company management. Jamal (Jussie Smollett) is slowly coming on his own after leaving his dad's apartment. Hakeem (Bryshere Gray) is climbing his way up in the industry. Lucious is already a hip-hop legend and his wife, Cookie? Well, Cookie may have not held a microphone in earlier episdoes but according to "Empire" TV series cast Taraji Henson, fans will get to see her character belt it out like her sons.
"I never thought Cookie sang because that's why she went to jail: Lucious was the talent, and if she snitched on him, how would her sons eat and get out of the ghetto?" Henson said in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter.
"She wasn't the talent ... So I never thought she could sing, but we've already established that she plays piano, and [co-creator] Lee Daniels and [music supervisor] Timbaland were like, 'The people will want to see her sing! They'll go nuts! We have to do it!' So I'm sure it's going to happen in the second season; I'm sure."
"Empire" TV series cast is headlined by Terrence Howard and Taraji Henson who both starred in the movie "Hustle and Flow." Their character though, in the Fox series hate each other as they were separated by their choices almost 20 years ago.
In the last episode, Lucious and Cookie somehow went cool with each other. Does this mean people will see them not dissing each other? According to Henson, the two still have feelings for each other.
"Cookie knows what's up. She went away 17 years ago with mad love for that man, and that doesn't go away [but] it doesn't even go away for him. They are one and the same. They are cut from the same ilk. They know each other. It's deep; it's so deep," Henson said.
"Empire" TV series cast is also joined by Grace Gealey as Anika Calhoun, Malik Yoba as Vernon Turner and Rafael de La Fuente as Michael Sanchez.
