Who can imagine anyone but Taraji P. Henson playing Cookie Lyon in Empire?
Well actually, one person could, and that’s James Corden.
During The Late Late Show, James showed a video from the auditions for Lee Daniels’ celebrated hip hop drama series, in which he arrives for the Cookie audition wearing a weave, a fur coat and a hella attitude.
He strolls in like he runs Empire records already, starts screaming lines from the script, and throwing a few Cookie-style quips Taraji’s way.