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Taraji and Terrence Cover Entertainment Weekly
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Alongside Black-ish, Fresh Off the Boat, and the Viola Davis-led How to Get Away With Murder, Empire is squashing the notion that a minority-led cast means a smaller audience for a network show. “I definitely think it’s going to change things,” says Grazer. “You hear people talking about it. It just opens up the vision of decision-makers” Daniels adds, “Finally there’s so many African-American experiences that can be seen and viewed by everybody. It’s nice to be there, really, at the epicenter of it all.” With so much attention and immediate success, Empire’s patriarch is determined not to be dethroned. “I thought it would take a couple years [to be a hit] and maybe get a little peak and then come back down,” admits Howard. “I didn’t know it would jump off from there. But now that such a huge audience has joined in to the dance and are following, I feel so responsible to keep them there.”
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http://www.ew.com/article/2015/02/25...er-empire?asdf
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