“Empire” Stars Yazz & Jussie Smollett Talk Dream Cameos, Experience Since Show’s Blown Up & More

Written By Cyrus Langhorne

[With "Empire" shocking fans with its finale last night (March 18), actors Bryshere "Yazz" Gray and Jussie Smollett tells SOHH what their dream cameos are for season two, what they've taken away from the show and their on-set experience.]

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For me, [dream cameos] it’s Mariah Carey and Janet Jackson and Brandy. I really want them just because I want to sing with them.

For me, it’s been a really wonderful experience thus far. Everybody has been really supportive and loving. I just get the most beautiful letters from kids, both homosexual children and heterosexual children, telling me that somehow they relate to Jamal in so many ways and I feel like that’s the – as an artist, we don’t always get these types of roles to come along, that really say something about what you care about, but when they do, you jump at the chance.

I feel like that’s what we all did. I feel like we all, in our own individual ways, fought so hard for these roles because of what it meant and what it said. It’s so entertaining and it’s so glamorous and fantastic, but it also is saying something about where our society is today and that means so much. When I get those letters, I’m a crying fool anyway, because I’m a Cancer, but it’s just really, really emotional and I love it. It’s been wonderful. -Jussie Smollett

Alright. For me [the dream cameos,] it’s Madonna, Queen Latifah, and Rihanna.

[Toughest scene?] It would have to be the elevator scene. It would have to be the elevator scene. Each take – I’m going to be honest, each take, I felt like I was going to pass out. I’m looking at Andre.

I’m looking at Juss and it’s like, wow, like the energy in the room was so like through the roof. My hands were shaking and it was just crazy. That was like the most nerve-wracking scene for me. -Bryshere “Yazz” Gray

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Written by Cyrus Langhorne

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