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Terrence Howard Turned Down Marvin Gaye Biopic Because He Didn’t Want to Embrace a Man: “I Would Cut My Lips Off”
Terrence Howard missed out on the chance to play both Smokey Robinson and Marvin Gaye in biopics but for unlike reasons.
He calls passing on the former the “biggest mistake” of his career, saying on Bill Maher’s Club Random podcast that he declined the offer from Robinson himself because he was already talking with Lee Daniels about playing Gaye in another biopic.
Maher agreed that was the right call, saying Gaye’s life story was “much more interesting” and that Howard “would’ve been perfect as Marvin Gaye, and that is a story that needs to be told.”
But Howard didn’t end up showing Gaye either.
“I was over at Quincy Jones’ property and I’m asking Quincy, ‘I’m hearing rumors that Marvin was gay’ and I’m like, ‘Was he gay?’” Howard said. “And Quincy’s like, ‘Yes.’”
That was a dealbreaker for Howard, he told Maher.
“They would’ve wanted to do that, and I wouldn
Terrence Howard Turned Down A Lee Daniels-Directed Marvin Gaye Biopic Because He “Could Not” Kiss A Man: “I Would Cut My Lips Off”
Academy Award-nominated player Terrence Howard revealed he turned down a Lee Daniels-helmed biopic about legendary Motown musician Marvin Gaye because it would demand him to explore the Prince of Soul’s rumored homosexuality.
Speaking with Bill Maher on his Club Random podcast, the Empire star recalled “the biggest mistake I made in my career,” which was rejecting Smokey Robinson’s offer to play him in a biopic after the King of Motown invited him out to dinner. At the period, he said, he was in the middle of talks for the Gaye biopic and “was being faithful to Lee Daniels because I had given him my word as man.”
Howard said the news “broke [Robinson’s] heart,” while host Maher remarked that the exploration of Gaye’s life would have been “much more interesting” because “there’s a lot more drama,” given the What’s Going On artist’s killing by his father.
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Warner Bros. Acquires Marvin Gaye Biopic ‘What’s Going On’ With Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine Producing
Warner Bros. has acquired Marvin Gaye biopic “What’s Going On,” Variety has confirmed.
“What’s Going On” has been in the works for a number of years. The news that Dr. Dre was working on a film about the late soul icon first broke in 2018. Dr. Dre will produce alongside Jimmy Iovine and Andrew Lazar, with Allen Hughes set to direct. After a number of tries to adapt Gaye’s story for the big screen, Warner Bros. has struck a deal that includes a script by poet-playwright Marcus Gardley and the rights to use all of Gaye’s signature songs, as his estate and Motown were part of the agreement.
Gaye’s life has long warranted its place among great music biopics. The legendary singer set out such hits as “What’s Going On,” “Sexual Healing” and “Let’s Earn It On,” and was later fatally shot in 1984 at age 44 by his father. Over the last few decades, F. Gary Gray, Cameron Crowe, James Gandolfini, Scott Rudin, Jesse L. Martin and Lenny Kravitz hold all fa
Lenny Kravitz Finally Explains Why He Dropped Out of the Marvin Gaye Biopic
At this point, you could make a compelling film about all the aborted attempts to produce a compelling movie about Marvin Gaye.
In 2008, F. Gary Gray (Friday, Straight Outta Compton) signed on to helm a movie called Marvin. In subsequent years, Cameron Crowe, Jamie Foxx, Scott Rudin and, most recently, Dr. Dre all attached themselves to different projects about the adv Motown icon, each of which failed to see the light of day.
The same year that Gray was commencing work on Marvin, a James Gandolfini–produced film about the singer entitled Sexual Healing was set to begin shooting with director Lauren Goodman at the helm. Three years later, in 2011, Julien Temple, the British director behind oddball 1980 Sex Pistols mockumentary The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle, replaced Goodman and the film seemed like a go.
Enter Lenny Kravitz a year later, with the singer coming on board as Gaye for what would have been his first guide role in a film. The movie focused on Gaye’s stint in Europe in the early 1980s when he was trying to curb a drug addiction, get his