-I saw a photo from you from your high school.
Where did you go to high school?
-I went to high school in Oxon Hill, Maryland.
Oxon Hill High School. -Okay, and -- and this --
normally, high school photos are pretty lame. Mine --
-They can be. -Mine was terrible.
I have a -- I have -- I grew a mustache.
-[ Laughs ] -Just -- started a mustache.
It was really, like -- -I have a feeling you´re going
to show my picture. I think it´s only fair you show yours, too.
-Oh, I don´t have mine, sorry. -Ohh.
[ Laughter ]
-But I do have yours. -I´m sure you do.
-But look at this. You´re a babe.
[ Cheers and applause ]
I love you. Look at the style! Look at the style.
Look at that! Look at the style! -Thank you.
-Look at that! Come on. I mean, that´s not --
that´s a professional picture right there.
-Actually, it is. -It is, right?
-Yeah, because I didn´t like the photographer they were using
for the, um... [ Laughs ]
[ Laughter ]
-Oh, in high school? -In high school.
I didn´t like it. -Yeah.
-I just saw the pictures. I was like, "Eh, boring."
So, I wanted to shake it up a bit, so I went and found
my own photographer. [ Laughter ]
-You really did? -I did.
-You look fan-- what a good style.
-I did my wardrobe and all my different changes.
-Yeah, I mean, you had -- you had the glasses.
Matching, the top with the shoulder pads.
-The dolphin door knockers. I had my name --
the correct spelling of my name in case you didn´t,
you know -- -Of course, yeah, so, yeah,
you aren´t -- -Taraji wasn´t the very --
it wasn´t the easiest name, you know.
-No, it´s not easiest, no, but you had style back then.
You still -- I mean... -Thank you.
-Congrats on "Empire" now, season 4?
-Yes. -Already?
[ Cheers and applause ] -I know, right? [ Laughs ]
-How did this happen? I can´t believe
it´s four seasons already. -Time flies.
-How´s Terrence doing? You got to tell him I said hi.
I love that dude. -He´s good. I will, I will.
He´s doing good. -What´s happening this season?
What do we got to know? -Oh, my goodness.
So, Terrence can´t remember anything --
-Okay. -Or Lucious -- he can´t
remember anything. -From the explosion.
-From the explosion.
He´s this really nice guy named "Dwight" now.
[ Laughter ] And Cookie´s kind of over it.
-She´s over it. She doesn´t want it.
-She´s over it. She wants -- she wants the roughneck back.
That´s what she fell in love with.
-That´s right, Cookie. -And now he´s all
too nice and gushy, Kumbaya. She´s over it.
-No, no, no. But you -- you in real life,
you are kind of a Kumbaya type of --
-I´m very mushy. -You are, but you´re also,
don´t you -- aren´t you very, like, Zen?
Don´t you meditate? -I do, I do, meditate!
-I´m getting into it, I´m getting into it.
What do you do? What´s your -- what´s your routine?
Can you tell me? Is it... -Well, the thing is,
a lot of people think when you meditate,
you have to "ohm" and burn candles,
and that´s one way to do it, but a meditative state is just
allowing your thoughts to run through
until you quiet your mind. You can do that just sitting
in a chair looking off into the abyss.
Like, you don´t have to "ohm." [ Laughs ]
-You don´t. -I think people get --
people get overwhelmed when you say "meditate"...
-Yeah. -...´cause they think
it´s a whole ritual. It´s whatever you make it.
So, I literally, I´m in the house,
I´ll turn the music off, no television, and I´ll just
move around the house with nothing on,
my thoughts are still running. I just don´t try
to answer questions and solve the world´s problems.
-Like a walking meditation? -Yeah.
-Really? -It´s a meditative state.
You don´t have to sit. It´s just allowing your brain to calm.
-But can you communicate with people?
-No. [ Laughter ]
-Like, if people -- people go, "Taraji, hey, hey, yo,"
are you, like, in a zone? You´re like
just banging into stuff? -You know what, sometimes
in my meditative state... [ Laughs ] No!
-Is it like sleepwalking? -I´m not -- I´m not in a trance.
No, Jimmy. -Okay.
-But what it is, is that sometimes I will think about
something enough that I will put it in the universe
and it will come back to me. That has happened a lot.
-Really? -Yeah, a lot.
-I believe that. -Little things. Little things
like I was thinking about, uh... oh, I can´t tell you.
I just -- I´m sorry. -All right.
-Cut! Take two. What was the question?
[ Laughter ]
I almost gave up some information!
[ Laughter ]
-You are so cute. Come on. I have --
I love you so much. -I love Jimmy and I want
to tell him everything, but I can´t tell you this yet, Jimmy.
-All right, that´s cool. Oh, I think --
-When I come back. -I think I know. I think I know.
-Yeah, I know. Shh! -I know.
-[ Laughs ] But -- -What -- what are these things?
-These are Tibetan singing bowls.
Now this is something that I have to sit down and do.
But the vibration of the bowl... [ Bowl rings ]
...will put you in the meditative state, because...
-So are you going to -- everyone´s going to meditate?
-I´m going to tell you how to do the Tibetan --
you have to be -- do it. To watch somebody do it
is not the same. [ Bowl clinking ]
No, no, no, no.
[ Laughter ]
Watch first, young -- -Dinner´s ready, y´all!
[ Laughter ] Come on in! Dinner!
We got some grub! We got some grub! Come on in, kids!
Come on in, y´all! [ Cheers and applause ]
So wait, I´m doing it wrong? What do you do?
-Well, you could -- [ Bowl rings loudly ]
That´s one way to do it. But it´s --
-That really gets me -- really Zenned out. I´m really...
[ Laughter ]
[ Loud clang ]
[ Laughter ] I´m so relaxed.
-Patience. -Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.
[ Low, faint ringing ]
-Can you hear it? -Is that real?
[ Ringing grows louder ] -Yeah.
-Is that coming from that? -Yes.
-Are you kidding me? [ Laughter ]
That is coming from that. [ Ringing continues ]
[ Laughter ]
I thought that was James playing the keyboard
or something like that. That was weird.
That just freaked me out, man. That freaked me out.
How did you do that? -Try it.
You have to be very -- it teaches you patience.
You have to hold it, Jimmy. You have to hold it.
[ Laughter ]
[ Low, faint ringing ]
Do you feel it? You´re going too fast, Jimmy.
That´s what she said. [ Laughter ]
♫♫
[ Bowls ringing rhythmically ] [ Cheers and applause ]
[ Laughter ] -I love you, man.
-I love you more. -Taraji P. Henson, everybody.
-Yay! -Check out the new season
of "Empire" Sunday at 8 P.M. on Fox. She´s fantastic.