Terrence Howard had the chance to play two legendary maynes of their respective biopics, however ultimately, he didn’t do both venture.
Throughout a latest look on the Membership Random podcast on April 27, Howard talked to host Invoice Maher concerning the affords he acquired to characterize two Motown greats on display.
The actor informed a narrative about Smokey Robinson inviting him to dinner years in the past as a result of “he wished me to play his life” in a movie, admitting that turning down the function was his greatest remorse.
In response to Howard, 56, he turned the venture down as a result of he was already in early talks with Lee Daniels to painting Marvin Gaye in one other biopic.
Maher appeared excited by that prospect, insisting Howard made the correct alternative as a result of Gaye’s life story is “rather more attention-grabbing.”
“You’ll’ve been good as Marvin Gaye, and that may be a story that must be informed,” the host assured Howard.
However ultimately, Howard didn’t play both function, stepping again from enjoying Gaye upon discovering Daniels’ plans to discover questions across the late singer’s sexuality.
“I used to be over at Quincy Jones’ home and I’m asking Quincy, ‘I’m listening to rumors that Marvin was homosexual’ and I’m like, ‘Was he homosexual?,’” Howard recalled. “And Quincy’s like, ‘Sure.’”
That’s when Terrence admits that he wouldn’t have been capable of “pretend” it and play an allegedly homosexual man.
“They’d’ve wished to do this, and I wouldn’t have been ready to do this,” he defined.
“You imply you couldn’t kiss a man on display in a film?” Maher requested, to which Howard replied, “No. As a result of I don’t pretend it.”
The Empire alum didn’t cease there, including, “That will f**okay me. I’d reduce my lips off. If I kissed some man, I’d reduce my lips off.”
Howard additionally went on to make clear, “It doesn’t make me homophobic to not need to kiss a person,” earlier than additional explaining why it’s a task he would by no means tackle.
“I can’t play that character one hundred pc,” he expressed. “I can’t give up myself to a spot that I don’t perceive.”
Throughout his lifetime, Gaye by no means explicitly confirmed or denied his sexuality. He was married to Anna Gordy for 10 years and to Janis Hunter for 5 years, and was by no means publicly linked to a different man. Nonetheless, in a 2018 interview with Vulture, the late Quincy Jones appeared to substantiate that Gaye as soon as had a relationship with Hollywood star Marlon Brando, who brazenly talked about his sexual experiences with males.
“Brando used to go cha-cha dancing with us. He may dance his ass off. He was probably the most charming motherf***er you ever met,” Jones stated on the time. “He’d f**okay something. Something! He’d f**okay a mailbox. James Baldwin. Richard Pryor. Marvin Gaye.”
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