Terrence Howard shared the surprising Marvin Gaye biopic story during an appearance on Bill Maher’s “Club Random” podcast on Sunday.
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Terrence Howard says he turned down playing Marvin Gaye in a Lee Daniels-directed biopic after being told that the late singer was gay.
The “Iron Man” star, 56, shared the revelation on Sunday’s episode of Bill Maher’s “Club Random” podcast.
The conversation turned to Gaye after Howard confessed the “biggest mistake” of his career was not portraying Smokey Robinson in a movie about the Motown icon.
Though Robinson, 85, asked Howard to play him, the actor said he was in the midst of a “conversation with Lee Daniels about playing Marvin Gaye.”
Maher, 69, argued that the narrative of the “Sexual Healing” hitmaker’s life was “much more interesting” than Robinson’s, and that Howard “would’ve been perfect as Marvin Gaye, and that is a story that needs to be told.
