The actor Terrence Howard has mentioned that he declined the function of Marvin Gaye in a movie, as a result of he didn’t need to kiss one other man.
Talking to Invoice Maher on his Membership Random podcast, the actor mentioned the “greatest mistake” of his profession was turning down the main function in a separate biopic of the singer Smokey Robinson – which Robinson had personally requested him to play.
That call was made as a result of he was already in talks with the director Lee Daniels to play Gaye in a movie, however grew to become alarmed when he started to study of rumours concerning the Let’s Get It On singer’s sexuality.
“I used to be over at Quincy Jones’s home,” Howard informed Maher, “and I’m asking Quincy, ‘I’m listening to rumours that Marvin was homosexual’ and I’m like, ‘Was he homosexual?’ And Quincy’s like, ‘Sure.’”
Howard mentioned that this meant he may not star within the movie. “They’d’ve needed to try this, and I wouldn’t have been in a position to try this.”
Maher clarified: “You imply you couldn’t kiss a man on display screen in a film?” to which Howard replied: “No. As a result of I don’t pretend it.”
“That will fuck me,” he added. “I’d lower my lips off. If I kissed some man, I’d lower my lips off.”
Howard went on to say that “it doesn’t make me homophobic to not need to kiss a person,” and sought to make clear that he would have felt unable to sufficiently decide to the function.
“I can’t play that character 100%. I can’t give up myself to a spot that I don’t perceive.”
Gaye was shot lifeless by his father in 1984, when the singer was 44. He didn’t publicly touch upon his sexuality, was married twice, and had three youngsters (one by adoption).
He gained a Grammy for his 1982 hit Sexual Therapeutic, taken from the album Midnight Love. Different landmark LPs embody What’s Going On (1971) and Let’s Get It On (1973).
Howard, 56, was Oscar-nominated for his function as a pimp within the 2005 movie Hustle & Circulate and starred for 5 years within the TV present Empire. He introduced his retirement in 2022 however has since appeared in a lot of different initiatives on the large and small display screen.
Maher was the goal of an essay written by Larry David within the New York Occasions final week, spoofing his fawning account of a cocktail party on the White Home with Donald Trump.
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