Monique claims Lee Daniels originally wanted to cast her as Cookie Lyon on the hit series Empire but Fox executives said no…
Monique tells Access Hollywood,
"When [Lee Daniels] called me up, he offered me the role in Empire as Cookie."
"Maybe four days had gone by, and I hadn't heard anything. So I'm trying to reach out to him to say, what time do I need to be in? Where do I need to be? When he finally returned the call, he says listen, the executives at Fox said that you're difficult."See the full interview here.
