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Bryshere Yazuan Gray (born November 28, ), [1][2] also known by the stage name Yazz the Greatest or simply Yazz, [3] is an American actor and rapper, best known for his role as Hakeem Lyon in the Fox primetime musical drama television series Empire. Director Lee Daniels "holds up the mirror to us as human beings," said Jussie Smollett, who plays a young black gay character on the new Fox series Empire.

Jamal Jussie Smollett in the premiere episode of Empire.

One of the most gripping scenes in the first episode of Fox's new series Empire is a flashback in which a younger version of Jamal Lyon — played by Jussie Smollett as an adult — walks in front of his parents and their friends, stumbling in his mother's high heels and wearing one of her head scarves. He catches the disappointing, angry glare of his father, Lucious Terrence Howard , who immediately jumps up, drags Jamal into a bedroom, and closes the door.

Henson , yells after Lucious not to hurt their child.

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In another flashback scene, Lucious attempts to dump Jamal — who looks to be around 4 years old — into a trashcan. In the show's present timeline, Jamal lives with his Latino boyfriend. His friends and family are aware of who he is, but he isn't publicly out, seeing as his famous father — an incredibly successful rapper turned music mogul — isn't supportive of him. Empire was co-created by Lee Daniels, who has delivered riveting — and at times, horrific — tales of black American life.

He was nominated for an Oscar for directing Precious , the film that depicts the emotional, physical, and sexual abuse of an obese New York teenage woman. But the message of Empire — which premiered on Wednesday to 9. When he signed on for the series, Daniels told BuzzFeed News, he was tired of seeing the same hyperfeminine portrayals of gay black men on screen. He wanted to give mainstream TV audiences something very different.

That Aunt Jemima stereotype," he said. Gray , a rapper on the rise; and middle child Jamal, a singer-songwriter prodigy. Empire , Smollett said, is "not shoving anything down your throat. It's not preaching, it's not telling you the way that you should feel about a certain issue, but it is giving you options.

Lee holds up the mirror to us as human beings. But you wouldn't necessarily know it from the last 20 years of TV, which mostly portrayed gay black men as hyperfeminine — characters probably best embodied by the "Men on Film" skits from the '90s series In Living Color , in which David Alan Grier and Damon Wayans snapped their fingers in the air, protruded their perfectly glossed lips and walked with a sexy, cat-like sway in their hips.

Williams, who portrayed Omar, told BuzzFeed News via phone. Daniels' own experience with being black and gay informed how he crafted Jamal and the world around him on Empire , and Jamal is played as a down-the-middle, well-mannered, even-keeled, guy-next-door type. With Jamal's storyline, Daniels said he is hoping to help normalize gay romantic relationships particularly between two men of color , while wrestling with the notion that the black community at large is homophobic.

It's a perception Daniels dates to the AIDS epidemic and the idea that the pandemic stems from black men who might be living on the down low or DL. He said he first started thinking about black men on the down low because of a close female friend who contracted HIV from her husband, who was gay. It's murder. And it's sad because your mother says, your priest says, your best friend says, your neighbors say, your classmates say, your teachers say you can't be who you are.

And that's lethal. Henson said she hopes the storyline changes black parents' opinions. You're no better than the racists. You ain't getting in bed with him, so what the hell does it matter? Showrunner Ilene Chaiken, who co-created Showtime's The L Word — a successful scripted series about gay women in Los Angeles in the early '00s — said that Jamal's father, for one, will make some progress.

We're going to try and find those moments where you feel a shift, but you feel his own internal resistance to it.