Actress Taraji P. Henson put up with a moody pimp in Hustle and Flow and a child who ages in reverse in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, for which she received a best supporting actress Oscar nomination.
In her TIFF film, Peep World, she’s a cop who inspires a hapless lawyer played by Rainn Wilson (The Office) to stand up to his overbearing family.
“I just love dark humour,” Henson said in an interview on Wednesday. “I get it. I’m always told in my work that I’m the ray of sunshine. I’m always the one who’s like, ‘Come on, you can do this!’ This was another opportunity to be that ray in all of this dark humour.
"And I think Rainn is incredibly sexy, and I just wanted to kiss him.”
She burst into giggles. “I’ve always been a fan of his work,” she continued. “I thought it was unexpected, me and him together, and I love throwing curve balls. And he has swagger in this. He’s got those curls going on, that beard stubble. That is very sexy to me. I was like, ‘Rainn! Rainn on me!’”
“So much so we had to cut it out of the movie,” director Barry Blaustein chimed in. “For ratings purposes.”
