While appearing at the Toronto International Film Festival, director Lee Daniels revealed that he had to fire his film crew due to their failure to light the star’s brown skin properly. Daniels admitted that he was forced to terminate a good portion of the Precious staff just 20 days into filming the 2009 Oscar Award-winning film, Entertainment Weekly reports.

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