“Empire” star Trai Byers — who plays Taraji P. Henson and Terrence Howard’s son Andre on the smash series — wants out of the Fox show, sources exclusively told Page Six. And producers are prepared to let him leave after some behind-the-scenes diva behavior.
‘Trai wants out,’said an insider. ‘He feels that he studied at Yale and he’s a ‘true thespian’ . . . The character is beneath him. He has an idea of himself as being this big Shakespearean actor.’
Byers, engaged off-screen to co-star Grace Gealey, ‘was up for a new Muhammad Ali movie, and in his mind he was very close to getting it, ‘another source said. ‘He fired [his team] when he didn’t, and now no one knows how to reach out to him. He’s even fired ICM.’
But a source close to “Empire” told us: ‘It’s the last week of filming the season, and he’s not quitting, nor is he being fired, for now.’”
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