Vivica A. Fox Says Coronavirus ‘Messed Up Everything’ About the ‘Empire’ Series Finale

usmagazine.com:

A bittersweet farewell. As Empire gears up to premiere its series finale, star Vivica A. Fox is opening up about how the novel coronavirus pandemic majorly affected the show’s intended conclusion.“We were in the final stages of getting ready to do the final episode, then corona — corona came through and messed up everything,” Fox, 55, told Us Weekly exclusively on Monday, April 20, while promoting her newly launched “Hustling with Vivica A.

Fox” podcast. “What they’re going to do is they’re going to piece together [scenes that were already filmed]. We were in the middle of filming the episode before the end [when the coronavirus struck].