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Terrence Howard Without holding back when it came time to reveal what is not ready to do for a role.
During Sunday, April 14, episode Bill Maher’s “Random Club” podcastHoward remembered the “biggest mistake” of his career. In claiming that Smokey Robinson He went to him about playing the famous singer in a biopic, Howard said he rejected him because he was already in conversations about portraying Marvin Gaye – who said it was a big mistake.
Maher noted that he believed Gaye’s life was “much more interesting,” and told the actor, “You would have been perfect as Marvin Gaye, and that is a story that needs to be told.”
Eventually, Howard did not play one musician. “I was over Quincy Jones’ House and I ask Quincy, ‘I hear rumors that Marvin is gay.’ And I’m like, ‘Was he gay?’ “
After Jones answered positively, Howard said he could not play the part.
“They would have wanted to do that, and I would not have been able to do that,” explained Howard, referring to the possible portrait of a gay relationship on screen.
“You mean, you couldn’t kiss a guy on the screen in a movie?” Maher asked Howard, “No. Because I don’t fake it.”
“I couldn’t kiss a man either,” Maher agreed. Then things took things a step further. “That would be f *** me. I would cut off my lips. If I were to kiss some man, I would cut my lips away.”
Maher took a beat and added that he wouldn’t go that far. “It doesn’t make me homophobic not to want to kiss a man,” Howard insisted. “I can’t play that character 100 percent. I can’t give up myself to a place I don’t understand.”
Howard has come on fire for alleged homophobia before. On April 9, The actor said The host of the podcast “PBD”, “I’ve lost businesses because I don’t bend over that way. I don’t compromise. I don’t play gay roles. I don’t kiss a man. I don’t do that s *** because the man card means everything.”
The confession trigger a strong response from Star Trek: Discover star Wilson Cruz.
“The truth is that no one wants to work with his tired and **, because of his ego and lack of work ethics, so literally, go f *** yourself. You are the sale out here,” Cruz added.
Although rumors had surrounded Gaye’s sexuality for years, the singer was twice married to two different women – first to Anna Gordy, and later to Janis Hunter.
In 2018, Quincy Jones have said Bullet that gaye and the actor Marlon Brando had a relationship.
“Brando used to go dancing with us. He could dance his ass. He was the most charming motherf-kning you ever met,” he told the outlet at the time. “He would have f *** anything. Anything! He was a mailbox. James Baldwin. Richard Pryor. Marvin Gaye.”
Back in 2020, Jane Fonda admittedly she always regrets not sleeping with Gaye. In an interview with the New York Times published in September, he said Che guevara He was not the man who went away – the singer “Mercy Mercy Me”. “He wanted to do that and I didn’t,” he explained. Fonda was married to Tom Hayden at the time.
“I met many performers to try and make concerts to Tom and the woman who helped me do that he introduced me to Marvin Gaye,” he remembered.
