Lee Daniels: “I Wanted White People To Feel Good About Being White” #Star

Lee Daniels is riding high off of the success of “Empire,” so he created another show, “Star.” “Star” focusing on an up and coming girl group, two members, being sisters, grew up in and out of foster care, and one sister was sexual assaulted for years. The sisters team up with another girl and drive to Atlanta to start their music career and start a new life.

“I wanted White people to feel good about being White“

Daniels talked to Ebony.com about his show, stating “I really want to explore race in a way that we haven’t seen it before on a network series.” The main character, STAR, a white girl (Jude Demorest), grew up and lived a life that is seen played out in many movies about black people and black families.

Star is also a white woman who is singing R&B with and written by a black girl on the show and uses black vernacular (in reference to Daniels statement). So I guess having white people be ” a part of our culture” is one way for them to feel good about themselves.

Her mom shared the same singing aspirations as her, but ended up doing getting involved in the wrong side of the industry with the wrong people. Having Queen Latifah and Lenny Kravitz to the cast are great additions.

“We are in a very dangerous state right now in our country and I wanted White people to feel good about being White because right now, there’s a lot of hatred going on,” Daniels explains before further detailing the story he created. “It started out with this White girl that was just badass and would do anything: kill, rob, have sex, whatever to get to the top. Then, I realized as I was writing, that it was more about a girl group. Their whole world is about what happened to me when I left home and went to Hollywood and the struggles I went through. ”

You can watch the trailer below, Star airs Wednesday Nights on Fox at 9 pm.