The 45-year-old actress Taraji P. Henson and mother of one is featured in the latest issue of CR Fashion Bookin cornrows is chic,classy and serving a whole lot of cookies.....
Read excerpts from her interview below.
On truth versus art:
I wear wigs a lot, especially for photo shoots. I have this girl Kendra
who braids my hair. She braids so intricately, so beautifully. So I’m
trying on the clothes and the silk scarf I have on my head slips off,
and I say, “Hey, look at my cornrows, aren’t they beautiful?” Bruce
Weber is standing there and he goes, “We’ll shoot that.” And I go,“What?
We’ll shoot what?” And he says, “We’ll shoot your hair just like that,
it’s beautiful.” And part of me was like, No, no, no, NO! This is the
hair no one is supposed to see. This is like behind-closed-doors hair. I
feel naked. I feel like a plucked chicken…or a wet one. A baby chicken!
But Bruce says to me, “It’s not about the hair, it’s your face.” So I
just decided to trust the artist’s vision. As an actress that’s what we
do. We are vulnerable every time we put our art out there. Underneath
that hair is my soul, and it’s me, it’s mine.
On losing her dad: My dad died right before I went into production for Benjamin Button,
and I was devastated. I was compartmentalizing my pain, but this movie
forced me to deal with it. Just as my father died I was playing this
woman named Queenie, who runs an old-age home, and all she does is deal
with death every day. God is interesting. A few months later God says,
“I’m also going to take your cousin.”
On being in a man’s world:
You want to talk about real? You want to talk about the truth? I am 45
this year, and look at my career. Maybe I wasn’t here to be hot and
young, but I still look hot and young. Early on, I prayed for longevity.
I had to plant my feet into the earth and pray to God and say, “This is
what I want.” I thought, Brace yourself, this is a man-made world. Calm
your tits, this is just the ride.
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