Actor Terrence Howard revealed that he refused to painting Marvin Gaye in potential movie due to the Motown singer’s rumored homosexuality, saying he’d minimize his lips off if he ever kissed a person.
The previous “Empire” star made the confession throughout an almost two-hour look on Invoice Maher’s “Membership Random” podcast. Howard informed Maher he turned city an opportunity to play Smokey Robinson as a result of he was in talks with director Lee Daniels for a attainable biopic of Gaye.
“You realize what occurred with that? I used to be over at Quincy Jones’ home … I am asking Quincy, ‘I am listening to rumors that Marvin was homosexual,'” Howard stated. “And I am like, ‘Was he homosexual?’ And Quincy is like, ‘Sure.'”
Daniels, who was an government producer on “Empire,” has not made a movie or tv collection about Gaye’s life and it is unclear when Howard had these conversations. Jones, a celebrated music producer, died in November final 12 months.
Gaye was married to 2 girls throughout his life and was not brazenly queer.
Howard went on to say that the filmmakers would have wished to discover Gaye’s rumored homosexuality and that he couldn’t kiss a person.
“I might minimize my lips off,” Howard stated. “If I kissed a person, I might minimize my lips off.”
Howard attributed it to him not having the ability to “faux it” and he couldn’t act a task he didn’t perceive. Maher informed Howard he wouldn’t wish to a kiss a person both, however “I might not try this” in reference to Howard’s self-mutilation remark.
“It doesn’t make me homophobic to not wish to kiss a person,” Maher stated, evaluating it to homosexual males who wouldn’t be all in favour of girls sexually.
The remark acquired some backlash on-line, with some calling Howard “deeply problematic” and others urging folks to cease interviewing Howard. One X person questioned what number of instances Howard was going to inform the world “he’s uncomfortable together with his masculinity.”
“He performs masculinity for the approval and acceptance of cishet males and despises homosexual males,” the person wrote. “We all know already.”
One other introduced up Howard’s historical past with home abuse following allegations made by two of his former wives. The person wrote, given the allegations, “I am having a tough time believing he likes girls.”
The actor admitted in a 2015 Rolling Stone interview that he hit his ex-wife Lori McCommas in 2001.
Michelle Ghent, Howard’s second spouse, accused him of assaulting her in a lawsuit that she later dropped. Howard informed Rolling Stone that Ghent was making an attempt to pepper spray him and he was making an attempt to bat her away.
