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Lee Daniels Says Making ‘Empire’ For Fox Was “Absolutely The Worst Experience”
Lee Daniels' background in independent film had him wondering what it would be like to work for a studio. "Horrible. Absolutely the worst experience."
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. 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. '” He goes on to say that his favorite movies were character-based horror films like “ The Exorcist and Rosemary’s Baby and The Omen.”
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