Taraji P. Henson Says A Role Written For Her Was Given To Naomi Watts

Taraji P. Henson is all smiles while attending a book signing for her memoir Around the Way Girl on Friday (October 15) at Barnes & Noble in New York City.

In the book, the 46-year-old Empire actress opens up about her struggles in Hollywood, including the time a role written for her was recast.

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Taraji says a part in the 2014 film St. Vincent was written specifically for her but ended up going to Naomi Watts.

While she praised writer-director, Theodore Melfi, for being able to see her “outside the box – a black woman playing the gritty girlfriend of a grumpy white man,” she adds that it was an example of how the studio “couldn’t see black women beyond a very limited purview.”

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