Five years after Jussie Smollett‘s alleged hate crime hoax, Lee Daniels is open to working with the actor again. The Academy Award nominee said that Smollett “was a son” to him after working together on his hit Fox series Empire, which ran for six seasons from 2015 to 2020, and Daniels would “work with him
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“A jury declared Jussie Smollett really bad at acting,” opened Weekend Update co-anchor Colin Jost tonight, making light of the recent headlines over the guilty verdict for the Empire actor earlier this week from his 2019 assault. “Smollett was found guilty of charges of staging a hate crime; it was the worst staged hate crime since my all-Christian