Celebrate Taraji P. Henson's Incredible Career With These Little-Known Facts

In a 2015 Rolling Stone piece on Terrence Howard, we got a little backstory about how Empire came together. The article quotes Taraji: "They came to me, and I said, 'The only person I'll do it with is Terrence.' Cookie and Lucious sometimes hate and love each other in the same scene. There's an unspoken connection that you can't fake. My boy Terrence and I have that. So I said to Lee, 'If you can make it happen with Terrence, call me back.'"

For further fun reference, Terrence and Taraji go back to 2005, when they acted together in Hustle & Flow.