Hollywood actor, Jussie Smollett, has had his role in Empire, Jamal Lyon, slashed from nine to four scenes following the attack scandal in January.
TMZ reports that Empire’ writers are making edits in the original script, which scheduled Smollett for multiples scenes and a big musical number.
This will no longer be the case for the actor, it is also reported that Jussie Smollett’s character will receive less screen time.
This move, TMZ reports, is in the wake of a growing sentiment that he staged the widely reported attack on him.
Openly gay Smollett was attacked in Chicago on January 29 as he walked back to his apartment from a Subway sandwich shop.
The actor said two masked individuals spewed racist and homophobic slurs, doused him with an unknown chemical substance.
Meanwhile there are reports that two Nigerian brothers, Abimbola ‘Abel’ and Olabinjo ‘Ola’ Osundairo, might have been paid off by Smollett to stage the attack.
The brothers were arrested on February 13, 2019, in connection to the case.
They were picked up at the airport in Chicago after they arrived from Nigeria where they had gone to spend some time with their family.
The brothers have since been released with no charges as the police revealed there is now new evidence.
Smollett has also vehemently denied paying the two brothers $3,500 to attack him.
His lawyers, Todd S. Pugh and Victor P. Henderson, disclosed that the star is now being victimised with the false allegations of him staging the incident.
