{"id":6052,"date":"2025-04-29T11:22:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T11:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/?p=6052"},"modified":"2025-05-01T18:18:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T18:18:05","slug":"hollywood-actor-claims-hes-been-blacklisted-after-suing-disney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/hollywood-actor-claims-hes-been-blacklisted-after-suing-disney\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood actor claims he\u2019s been \u2018blacklisted\u2019 after suing Disney"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Terrence Howard believes he’s been ‘blacklisted’ from Hollywood (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Terrence Howard<\/a> has said he\u2019s been shunned by Hollywood after he sued Disney.<\/p>\n

The 56-year-old actor<\/a> is best known for his roles in the movies Hustle & Flow, Iron Man, The Butler and as the voice of James in the 2009 Disney animated film The Princess and the Frog.<\/p>\n

On TV he\u2019s also played Jackie Jackson in The Jacksons: An American Dream, Al Cowlings in The O. J. Simpson Story, Cassius Clay in King of the World and the lead character Lucious Lyon in the musical drama series Empire from 2015 to 2020.<\/p>\n

However, in 2021 he sued 20th Century Fox, owned by Disney, over allegations of unpaid royalties related to his starring role in Empire.<\/p>\n

A few years on the actor has said his career has stalled because of the legal case.<\/p>\n

\u2018My whole goal now is to disappear from that side of it,\u2019 he said on Bill Maher\u2019s Club Random <\/a>podcast.<\/p>\n

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His break-out role was in 2005’s Hustle & Flow (Picture: Everett\/ Rex\/ Shutterstock)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When asked if that meant he intended to quit acting he replied: \u2018I\u2019ve got to, dude. I\u2019m on the Chitlin\u2019 Circuit now, after I sued Fox.\u2019<\/p>\n

He was then asked to clarify his comment, continuing: \u2018No studio movies. No big television stuff. Everything is on the outskirts. Why? Because you don\u2019t f*** with the Mouse. I f***ed with the Mouse. I sued the Mouse, I sued Fox, and I\u2019m suing CAA right now. But it\u2019s about my money. If someone takes $300 million from you, you\u2019re like: \u201cDude!\u2019 You\u2019ve got to go for it\u201d.\u2019<\/p>\n

After Disney purchased Fox in 2019, the two huge studios merged.<\/p>\n

At the height of its popularity Empire brought in around $100 million (\u00a374 million) in advertising for 20th Century Fox.<\/p>\n

However, Terrence later sued his talent agency, CAA, alleging they\u2019d pressured him to accept a below-market salary during his six seasons on the show, claims which CAA has denied.<\/p>\n

During the same interview, the actor declared he would rather \u2018cut off his lips\u2019 than kiss a man for a movie role.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\"EMPIRE:\t<\/div>
However he went on to sue Disney in 2021 for ‘unpaid royalties’ from starring in Empire (Picture:Fox Image Collection via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He was talking about declining the opportunity to star as Marvin Gaye<\/a> in a biopic, which would have apparently required it \u2013 \u2018and I wouldn\u2019t have been able to do that\u2019.<\/p>\n

Revealing the \u2018biggest mistake\u2019 of his career, he said it was the chance to portray Smokey Robinson<\/a> in a biopic, a part the musician had personally asked him to play.<\/p>\n

However, he declined the Robinson role because he had \u2018just had conversations with [director] Lee Daniels about playing Marvin Gaye\u2019 in a separate biopic.<\/p>\n

Howard, who previously appeared in Marvel’s Iron Man<\/a>, says he was \u2018being faithful\u2019 to Daniels and their talks by not pursuing the project with Robinson \u2013 even if it broke the Miracles star\u2019s heart, as he claims.<\/p>\n

But he then revealed he ended up turning down the Marvin Gaye biopic<\/a> after all because music legend Quincy Jones \u2018confirmed\u2019 to him rumours that I Heard It Through the Grapevine icon Gaye was gay.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\"EMPIRE:\t<\/div>
The Empire star revealed he was in discussions to play music legend Marvin Gaye in a Lee Daniels-directed biopic (Picture: FOX Image Collection via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\t\t\"American\t<\/div>
However he pulled out after Quincy Jones ‘confirmed’ to him rumours that Gaye was gay (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u2018I was over at Quincy Jones\u2019 house and I\u2019m asking Quincy, \u201cI\u2019m hearing rumours that Marvin was gay,\u201d and I\u2019m like, \u201cWas he gay?\u201d\u2019 Howard recalled. \u2018And Quincy\u2019s like, \u201cYes\u201d.\u2019<\/p>\n

Howard then said he \u2018could not\u2019 star in the movie after hearing that because he \u2018couldn\u2019t fake it\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u2018They would\u2019ve wanted to do that, and I wouldn\u2019t have been able to do that,\u2019 he said of portraying a gay man in Gaye, and being required to kiss a male co-star onscreen.<\/p>\n

\u2018That would f**k me,\u2019 Howard added. \u2018I would cut my lips off. If I kissed some man, I would cut my lips off.\u2019<\/p>\n

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‘I would cut my lips off’ Howard declared of kissing a male co-star, but said it was because he ‘couldn’t fake it’ (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Host Maher said he wouldn\u2019t go as far as Howard but could understand his discomfort, commenting: \u2018It does not make me homophobic to not want to kiss a man.\u2019<\/p>\n

Howard also clarified that it was more about his commitment to the role as an actor than his view on sexuality.<\/p>\n

\u2018I can\u2019t play that character 100 percent. I can\u2019t surrender myself to a place that I don\u2019t understand,\u2019 he insisted.<\/p>\n

Gaye was married twice to women: producer Berry Gordy\u2019s sister Anna and Janis Hunter, with whom he shared children, Nona and Frankie.<\/p>\n

He adopted son Marvin III with Anna, who was the biological son of her 16-year-old niece, Denise.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\"CIRCA\t<\/div>
Gaye, who had a string of hits including I Heard it Through the Grapevine and Sexual Healing, was married twice to women in his lifetime and never addressed any rumours of homosexuality (Picture: Jim Britt\/Michael Ochs Archives\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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