Taraji P. Henson

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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🗓️ 20 December 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Taraji P. Henson is synonymous with Cookie Lyon, the unforgettable matriarch she played on the hit series Empire which earned her a Golden Globe award. But she has also won praise her performances in films like Hustle & Flow, Hidden Figures and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. In this week’s “Sunday Sitdown,” Willie Geist gets together with Henson over Zoom to talk about a different kind of project – her new Facebook Watch series Peace of Mind with Taraji, where she hosts open, honest conversations about mental health.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.
0:04.8	My thanks as always for clicking and listening.
0:08.2	If you've been with us for the last couple of years of this podcast, we have been longer.
0:12.2	Sunday to the end, in DC, you know we're going back to some of our favorite guests for
0:17.4	a second interview.
0:18.4	And we got another one of those today for you with the great Taraji P. Henson, the Golden
0:22.6	Globe winning Oscar-nominated actress.
0:25.6	You probably know her best playing cookie lion on the hit Fox series Empire was just
0:30.9	ended this year after six seasons.
0:33.7	For all you Empire fans out there, we do get into whether or not there's going to be a
0:36.9	cookie spin-off series.
0:38.8	There's been some talk of that.
0:39.8	Hang in for that conversation.
0:42.0	She's had an amazing career, which we went all the way through in our first time interviewing
0:46.6	Taraji.
0:47.6	And now she's got this new project that we dig into today.
0:51.3	It's a show.
0:52.3	I call it a talk show and she kind of semi-corrects me.
0:54.9	But I think it is a talk show.
0:57.1	It's called Peace of Mind with Taraji.
0:59.4	And it's really a show about mental health and taking away some of the stigma of talking
1:04.1	about mental health.
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