Terrence Howard Says 'Empire' Suffers From 'Bad Writing' The actor believes writers for the Fox hit show have his character, Luscious Lyon, wrong. In the show, Lucious left his wife, Cookie, played by Taraji P. Henson, to serve jail time for a crime they both committed. He later tried to keep her out of a popular record label they both founded. Howard told 'Page Six,' “you have to understand that it is from the writers’ perspective.” Howard doesn’t feel that Lucious is as much of the bad guy he's made out to be. He continued by noting that “the Lucious that I play would have never
left her in jail.” Terrence Howard, to 'Page Six' Howard further went on to say that what is being written isn’t reality. Terrence Howard, to 'Page Six'
