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Lee Daniels Would “Work With” Jussie Smollett Again After 2019 Alleged Hate Crime Hoax


Five years after the actor's alleged hate crime hoax, Lee Daniels is open to reuniting with Jussie Smollett on a project.

He added, “I was so busy, worried about Cookie’s hat and the music that we were playing [on Empire], this was before Insecure, this was before Black Panther. Terrence Howard, Trai Byers, Jussie Smollett and Bryshere Y. In January 2019, Smollett claimed he was physically attacked outside his Chicago apartment building by two men hurling racist and homophobic slurs at him.

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