Mariah Carey is set to guest-star on Empire after years of rumors. Good friend (and Precious director)
Lee Daniels has been teasing a Carey cameo since the first season and
decided enough was enough. “I said, ‘It’s time to put Mariah on the show
because I am going to be a liar to the world and to her,’” says the
show’s co-creator and EP with a laugh.
Carey will portray Kitty,
a singer brought in by Cookie (Taraji P. Henson) to duet with Jamal
(Jussie Smollett). The Lyon matriarch thinks working with a star as big
as Kitty will help her son deal with his PTSD and stage fright after
being shot near the end of last season. “She’s the one that sees
everybody’s always telling Jamal what to do,” says Smollett. “From
Lucious to Cookie to the media to his fans. Kitty is a person who’s a
much bigger star than Jamal and she’s there to kind of be like, ‘Stop.
He’s human.’”
An unabashed Carey fan, Smollett
says it was a surreal experience. “I’m just like, ‘Yo, that’s Mariah
Carey talking to me, telling me how to sing something on a duet with
her,’” he says excitedly. “Get the f—k up out of here!”
While Carey is currently slated only for the Oct. 5 episode, Daniels says he hopes Kitty will return and promises her Empire
wardrobe is appropriately dramatic. Teases Daniels, “Lots of
hair and fishnets and stilettos!”
Empire returns on Sept. 21 at 9 p.m. ET on Fox.
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