“Empire” Star Reveals How She Landed Dream Opportunity: “What Did I Have To Lose?”

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[With Fox's "Empire" sparking a ton of attention based off its premiere last week, show star Grace Gealey talks to SOHH readers about how she landed a role as Terrence Howard's wife.]

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“Empire” was definitely a supernatural kind of thing. I’ve been in the game for a few years and was the starving artist. I played my part with that and struggled, but it was one of those situations that happened where they were opening the power pool for Chicago where they were interested in shooting.

So I auditioned on-camera and it was sent off to Lee [Daniels] and the other producers, they took a look and they were coming to Chicago for auditions and we ended up doing a screen test.

Lee worked with me and was very specific about exactly what he wanted and two days later, I got the role.

It was one of those things that was pretty surreal. It was miraculous.

There’s a ton of us actors out there and we’ve heard “Yes” and “No.” You get to that point where you’re just like, “I’m an artist. I went to school for this and I have a lot of training behind me.”

You have to go in there with the attitude of, “I can give you what you’re looking for.”

That was my main approach instead of, “Oh, I gotta get this.” If the answer was “No,” it wouldn’t have been any different than the week before so what did I have to lose?

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