Taraji P. Henson Fought To Have Drivers Take ‘The Color Purple’ Cast To Set: “They Gave Us Rental Cars” https://t.co/8XlKcUe4RD
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Taraji P. Henson is criticizing that production had the cast drive themselves to the set.
Producers of the film gave the cast rental cars to take themselves to the set of the production.
Henson fought to get a driver due to it being an “insurance liability.”
“They gave us rental cars, and I was like, ‘I can’t drive myself to set in Atlanta.’ This is insurance liability, it’s dangerous. Now they robbing people. What do I look like, taking myself to work by myself in a rental car? So I was like, ‘Can I get a driver or security to take me?’ I’m not asking for the moon. They’re like, ‘Well, if we do it for you, we got to do it for everybody.’ Well, do it for everybody! It’s stuff like that, stuff I shouldn’t have to fight for. I was on the set of Empire fighting for trailers that wasn’t infested with bugs.”
Henson noted that these situations wear on her soul
“because you fight so hard to establish a name for yourself and be respected in this town to no avail.”
