Here's the last dab.

The last bite is what it said the last meal.

Last supper Because you go, Dad.

His hat one.

Hey, what's going on?

Everybody for first we feast.

I'm Sean Evans and you're watching hot ones.

It's the show with hot questions and even hotter wings.

And today we open up Season five with Taraji P.

Henson.

She's a Golden Globe winner and Oscar nominee and best selling author.

You know his cookie Lyon on Fox's hit series Empire and she stars and Proud Mary, which is in theaters now.

Tragi Welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me, Frank.

How are you without food?

I'm about here.

Louisiana right there.

I'm happy with that.

I've long waited for somebody to tap out before deejay Callen.

Today might be the day Taraji Ready?

I'm going to tap out.

I'm telling you no surprise here, but and you want to start Not Smails Hat that smells like Cut my tongue out.

That's our Donkey Kong.

That's the underlying.

I like playing donkey cone met with him and then that's like a Children.

Oh, this is like barbecue sauce.

Get six more days, Lee So I start by digging into the Taraji P.

Henson back story.

Because the road to success is always a winding one between being a receptionist at the Pentagon, a substitute teacher and a singing waitress aboard The Spirit of Washington lets the pre fame job that you remember most fondly probably just very Washington Check this out.

We had to sing and dance and all of that.

And we got an option to pick up a, um solo to sing.

Guess what?

My moi ce What was yours?

Proud Mary Crazy.

It all comes.

Full circle comes full circle.

Where's my cops?

Here?

I don't want milk in water.

Thrown a lot at us strategy.

This is not I don't know.

I can't tell Drink.

It's just a drink.

I don't know if you can tell, but we're not just a ship.

I know that much thing.

This is This is Louisiana hot sauce.

I can do this all right.

Taste anywhere.

So I know that you've said it in the past that playing cookie Lyon dreams you.

So it's with a heavy heart that I asked to summon her now but I want to do is show you some up and coming rappers, that air sort of bubbling in the scene.

And I'm curious from Cookie Lyon's perspective what the first impression might be.

Maybe the first thing you'd ask if they walked in looking for me to help that siren entertainments had a van are my guess is that you don't, But who knows?

So this 1st 1 is Lausanne.

Okay.

Can you write?

Do you write your own minds?

Can you produce a song this next one too, Kashi?

69 I know this guy.

I kind of found him Internet.

Interesting Look, but can you rack?

Can you give me bars more than 16?

And do you write very?

Can you produce a B?

I would ask all these guys that because to me, that's important.

Little pump.

You go through the same questions.

Wow.

I love the hair colors.

Yeah, See yours.

The grandpa in the money to you.

But we don't call that money over here.

Last one cardi b o.

She signed, baby.

I signed her right away.

She signed?

All right, You ready to move on, Thio?

Oh, unknown stratosphere for you.

Smell it.

I know this is This is this is.

Okay.

Spot.

There is a chicken.

I know that you love to cook, especially on Thanksgiving, but it's your reputation for making amazing chili that precedes you to those of us here.

At first we feast.

Is it true that Mary J.

Blige loves your chili so much that she has you freeze bags, whatever you make it.

If he knows he's coming to where I am, So they make that chili and freeze it and I have Nicole come pick it up.

Several assistant.

What makes Mary J such a great go to sushi?

We have incredible converses.

We laugh So he loves sushi.

And then we got us a good little pat.

Wow.

Shut it down.

Ready to move on.

Tragedy?

Yes.

Do you hate that person to smell their food?

Wait, How?

How?

How That this area was going on.

We're only 1234 A little.

A little bit already.

Is that how you do?

You stick your tongue in there.

It's a new It's new to me.

I have not seen that from this side of the table.

But it's sure that bird did it work.

I want to stay on the topic of food because hot ones and because I need to know where does winning the lasagna cookoff rank on your list of professional accomplishment?

A top.

It looks beautiful.

You know how you have that layers of that?

They were caught a cheese.

You have to have a layer of the green spinach.

It was beautiful.

His pasta sauce and cheese.

No colors.

That's how you don't win.

Cook.

Exactly, But is in mambo sauce because we did the whole documentary about it.

And everyone from D.

C seems to have a different opinion is probably a lot of sugar.

Hmm.

Seems like a lot of sugar's really sweet.

I don't know what's in it is good.

It is good.

I get my mumbles off from What is it?

Capitol Hill.

Capital City, Capital City.

I tried to give you a plug.

I'm drunk off these wings in this milk.

I don't know.

Well, that that sounds.

Listen what, in my humble opinion, Yes, I think it goes like I don't know.

I don't know.

Is waking up in the booth.

Can you put it in this elevator movie?

Taught me what a polar bear Waas talked to me.

My character drink polar bears.

And that's a vodka milk situation.

Damn.

Who does the Russians?

I think, I guess.

All right.

Strategy.

So we have recurring segment on our show called.

Explain that, Graham.

We do a deep dive on our guest instagram pictures that need more contacts.

So I'll bust out the laptop.

I'll show you the picture, and then you just tell me the bigger story.

Does that sound?

I'm getting sick after that.

For real.

We take those five, come back around here.

What did you get?

First things first.

Cookie meets cookie.

That was amazing.

Sesame Street was my most favorite Is show on the planet because they danced and they sang and they would.

They were wrapping before rat and they had the most amazing guests.

And who doesn't love a cookie monster?

Look of excitement.

My mountain is beginning.

I know that you've treaded this before.

I knew you would bring in that.

It fits our segment so perfectly.

Was this just another day in the life for extra hard on Saturday?

That's That's Suraj hee.

I love you know, people call me Hollywood and Heist.

I didn't even know I was ready to act yet And people like looking little Hollywood.

Guess they right?

Those are my glasses I wore.

Those were not Shay's.

Those were glasses.

I walked in the classroom just like that.

With all of that attitude.

I can't one more for you, Theo Obama's is Brock and Empire Fan.

Yes.

Did you even able tweeting about it?

You know how sometimes you go places and you meet these political figure?

I'm not a politician.

I don't like to shit, to be quite honest, but when I have to vote, I do vote.

I try to pick the lesser of two evils.

Didn't want time, but let's try again anyway.

Um, they knew everything about, you know, I was Howard, help us.

All right?

You ready to move on?

Did you know, man, that was funny.

If you do, you just brushed my entire I know.

You know, Crown Royal Knights.

You know who has a song about this and I love her.

Jill Scott, Did you know that Crown Royal Night that's just too cannot address her, Scott.

Now you know that song you did about Crown Royal?

Nice.

It's too short, baby.

It's just heart.

My finger got numb because I kept hitting Replay, replay.

Really?

Kids over a remix.

We just let it play, like, 10 minutes until I finished the whole bottle, At least you know.

Anyway, back to our regularly scheduled program.

Karma.

Karma.

Is this OK?

We'll see.

I guess this smells hot.

And it made the chicken grow here.

I don't trust it.

Uh, that will burn.

That's not nice.

What do you mean?

I spit it out and it's still burning.

This is not fair.

Which one is that?

Six six sauce coming at you coming at me.

I don't like turned on the barrel and it lasts to win the next lifetime.

What has 1/2 life?

So it was bad, as you feel is as bad as you're gonna feel.

You know, this is not I know all of these That smells like death beyond insanity that burned my nose hairs.

The last dab last bite is what it said.

The last meal, last stuff.

You will die.

Uh, his hat.

I'm a play these games.

We already went with karma, So we're already there were just Hey, who's eating this for me?

Where's my stunt double?

You cannot have I done.

Oh, really?

Home.

I'm gonna tap out.

I'm telling you.

No surprise here.

Tapping someone in my security days.

He represents me, right?

Right, right.

Sometimes on hot ones, you have to bring some muscle.

A Someone who failed calculus in college.

What was your biggest challenge?

Playing renowned NASA mathematician Catherine Coleman and hidden figures that dark secret hanging over my head that I suck in math.

But great actress made you believe that Knew those those equations that I know what I was writing.

I fell like Chinese, but you believed it.

God has a great sense of humor because I failed, man.

There you go through a role.

It's just all about, man.

You're really funny.

It's like that time when you had me kissing my son Brad Pitt.

Like, really, I wanted to work with him.

I didn't want to play his mother.

All right, You ready to move on?

More importantly, are you ready?

Are you?

Move on from me.

I'm ready.

So this is an interesting situation here.