The growing Hollywood trend of a-listers making a transition from the silver screen to television has attracted the likes of Charlie Sheen, Ashton Kutcher, Kerry Washington and Halle Berry to land roles on popular network shows.
More recently, Academy Award-nominated director Lee Daniels also made the jump alongside Taraji P. Henson and Terrence Howard in Fox’s breakout hit series “Empire.” And as the topic of diversity in Hollywood continues to become a hot button issue, “Empire” star, Jussie Smollett weighed in on how he believes television serves as a better medium than film in displaying fair on-screen representation.
“TV is a more diverse space right now because TV is driven by the people,” Smollett admitted during a recent interview with MTV News. “When a television show like ‘Scandal’ becomes the biggest show in recent history, suddenly advertisers and networks want to jump on that. And what it’s showing is that people want to see diversity.”
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