
He played a chauvinistic advertising executive who, after a freak head injury, could hear what women thought. The source material for this flagrant, shameless comedy is What Women Want (2000), directed by Nancy Meyers and starring Mel Gibson. If most of the ingredients are right, the cake will turn out just fine. Now she’s digging into ribald humor and has surrounded herself with the right producers ( Girls Trip), director (Adam Shankman, The Wedding Planner, Hairspray), screenwriters (Tina Gordon, ATL Peter Huyck, Veep) cast and crew. On the big screen ( Hidden Figures, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) and small one ( Empire) she’s built a solid, award-winning rep in drama.

On talk shows her innate sense of humor is evident.

Henson, after a string of B-movies ( Proud Mary, Acrimony), rocked a bonafide comedy.

Hensonīy Dwight Brown, NNPA News Wire Film Critic Photos from “What Men” Want, starring Taraji P.
