“Do what you like, but don't do it to me, don't target me.”
It is Terrence Howard who talks about homosexuals while explaining why he never portrayed singer Marvin Gaye on the screen.
He predicted at some point to represent Gaye in a film directed by the executive producer “Empire” Lee Daniels, Howard told Bill Maher on the “Random club»Podcast released on Sunday.
Then he was taken to dinner and asked to play in a film on the life of Smokey Robinson – by Smokey Robinson himself. Howard had to transform the singer “Cruisin” because he was “faithful” to Daniels. “I had given my word as a man, I'm going to do that with you.”
“The biggest error I made in my career,” Howard told Maher while the two met together. The actor did not say exactly when it fell, but added: “He wanted me to play his life … I had to tell them (no) at the table and it broke his heart.”
But playing Gaye was not either. Maher called him “too bad” because he said that the history of Gaye's life was much more dramatic.
“I'm sorry, the drama of the drama, and there is much more drama in be killed by your father“Said the host” in real time “.” It's a story … It's much more interesting and Marvin Gaye, like, you would have been perfect as Marvin Gaye. And it's a story that must be told. »»
Then Howard, who was married four times, to three different womendecided to explain why he did not play the Singer of “sexual healing” twice.
“I was at Quincy Jones – and I don't give up names, I just give credibility on what I say – I ask Quincy, I hear rumors that Marvin was gay … And I said to myself:” Is he gay? “And Quincy is like,” yes “.”
Insert the microphone here. Gay said to a biographer in 1982 That he was not interested in the men and the younger sister of singer Zeola Gaye was not at all happy when Jones Alludes to his brother's sexuality In an interview of 2018.
“They would have wanted to do it and I could not have done it,” said Howard.
“You mean, couldn't you kiss a guy on the screen in a movie?” Asked Maher.
“No, because I do not simulate,” replied the actor “Hustle & Flow” nominated for the Oscars. “It would be for me. I would cut my lips. If I did, I would cut my lips. ”
After the host admitted that, well, he could not kiss a man either – “it does not make me homophobic not to want to kiss a man,” said Maher, “just like many gay men are like” P – Yurk. “” Howard has developed his reasoning.
“Do what you like, but don't do it, don't target me,” said the actor. “And I can't play this character 100%. I can't go to a place that I don't understand.”
The actor, who played the Patriarch Lucious Lyon for six seasons on “Empire”, said in 2019 that he had finished with the theater, “pretending”. Since then, he has made eight films and two mini-series.
