{"id":291288,"date":"2020-04-22T08:25:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T14:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1143572"},"modified":"2020-04-22T08:25:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T14:25:33","slug":"why-taraji-p-henson-feels-incomplete-without-a-proper-empire-series-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/why-taraji-p-henson-feels-incomplete-without-a-proper-empire-series-finale\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Taraji P. Henson Feels “Incomplete” Without a Proper Empire Series Finale"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fox’s Empire<\/em> is done<\/a>. Or is it?<\/p>\n

The series wrapped up its six seasons on television with an early finale, the proper series-ender was a casualty of the coronavirus. Production was shut down in the middle of filming episode 19 of the 20-episode final season. Instead, producers cobbled together a finale with episode 18 and what was shot for 19. Major storylines were left unresolved, like who blew up Cookie’s (Taraji P. Henson<\/a><\/strong>) car and who shot Lucious (Terrence Howard<\/a><\/strong>) and whether they survived those attempts on their lives.<\/p>\n

While it remains unlikely the show will be able to shoot the proper finale, showrunner Brett Mahoney<\/strong> has made it clear he wants fans to get the ending somehow.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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“[W]e will find some creative way, whether it’s just releasing the script or something, we’ll get it out there as to what it was intended,” Mahoney told Deadline<\/a> about the original series ending. “But I don’t want to give it away now. I will tell you, though, the spirit that you see in this piece is similar to the spirit in which we intended to end the series.”<\/p>\n

Henson told EW<\/a> if Empire doesn’t get a proper series finale, it will be on her mind forever. She told EW she is pushing for it to be made properly.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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“These posts and DMs that I’m getting, they are heart-wrenching. As an artist, to not be able to finish something that you started, that hurts me. I feel incomplete. I don’t ever start something and don’t complete it. And so, for me, it’s deep; I have to finish, or this will haunt me for the rest of my life and career. As it would the audience. And I don’t think we should deprive such a loyal fan base of that ending. They deserve to be in their feelings. They deserve more than this abrupt ending. And I get it, where we are right now, we have to be responsible. But I think when the dust settles, at the end of the day, the audience deserves it. Because they pay my bills!” Henson said.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Could the story continue in a rumored Cookie spinoff? Nobody is saying anything for sure just yet.<\/p>\n

“I don’t actually know. I don’t have anything to do with any spinoff. But I would imagine [such a series] would be something people would be interested in. And I would imagine the studio and the network would want to explore that. But I don’t know where that is or what they’re doing,” Mahoney told TVLine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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