Lee
Daniels is
not
holding
anything
back.
The Precious director
recently
got
candid
about
his
time
as
the
creator,
writer
and
producer
of
FOX’s Empire,
saying
that
he
had
a “horrible”
time
on
the
show
and
only
did
it
because
he
was
curious
about
answering “to
suits.”
“I
wanted
to
know
what
that
experience
was
like,”
he
told Film
Stage in
an
interview
published
Sept.
4,
noting
that
all
of
his
productions
up
to
that
point
had
been
independent. “All
of
my
friends,
they
get
notes and
s–t. And
I’m
like, ‘What
is
that
like?!'”
As
Daniels
noted,
while
he “only
did Empire just
so
I
could
see
what
that
experience
was
like,”
he
is
hoping
to
never work
under circumstances
like
that
again.
“Absolutely
the
worst
experience,”
he
said
of
his
time
on
the
show. “Horrible!”
However,
there
was
one
positive
that
came
from Empire, which
ran
on
FOX
from
2015
to
2020: “Money,
money, money.”
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