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A limited series starring Jamie Foxx and feature-length iterations with Lauren Goodman, F. I can’t surrender myself to a place I don’t understand.”
Throughout the years, there have been several attempts to depict Gaye’s life onscreen. Most recently, Deadline exclusively reported in 2021 that Warner Bros.
I can’t surrender myself to a place that I don’t understand,” Howard went on. Because I don’t fake it.”
The “Real Time” host said he “couldn’t kiss a man either.”
Howard continued, “That would f–k me. Dre has been attached to the film for three years, since first outlining his intentions to develop an authorized retelling of the soul singer's life in June 2018.
When you listen, in one measure you feel like you’ve read a novel. The subject's widow Jan Gaye is on board as an executive producer alongside Suzanne de Passe, while the Marvel Gaye estate and Motown will both be involved. “I’m asking Quincy, ‘I’m hearing rumors that Marvin was gay’ and I’m like, ‘Was he gay?’ And Quincy’s like, ‘Yes,'” Howard recounted.
As a result, the Iron Man actor said he “could not” play the role.
When I made my first film with my brother, we were fortunate to get “What’s Going On” into the trailer for Menace 2 Society, and it was a game changer in elevating the marketing of that film. I would cut my lips off. The casting search is set to get underway imminently with an eye to production starting next year, and the lead role in What's Going On possesses the potential to put whoever ends up winning it into the thick of the 2023 awards season conversation.
According to reports, What's Going On will begin production next year with an intended 2023 release both in theaters and on HBO Max.
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Terrence Howard passed on Marvin Gaye biopic because he ‘would’ve had’ to kiss a man: ‘I would cut my lips off’
What’s going on?
Terrence Howard said he turned down playing Marvin Gaye in a Lee Daniels-directed biopic after being told that the late singer was gay.
from a script by poet and playwright Marcus Gardley, with Dr. had landed an Allen Hughes-directed project with producers Dr. Such a rich inner life in that voice, heavenly but riddled with pain, the agony and ecstasy at the same time.
When he gained his independence in the ’70s, with that album What’s Going On, then Trouble Man and Let’s Get It On, I Want You and his final masterpiece Here, My Dear, when it comes to vocal orchestrations and the way he layered his voice, he’s Mozart.
He’d f–k a mailbox.
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Allen Hughes will direct Marvin Gaye biopic What's Going On for Warner Bros.
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.”
However, Howard — who starred on Daniels’ TV series “Empire” — grew cold on Daniels’ biopic after a conversation with legendary record producer Quincy Jones.
“I was over at Quincy Jones’ house and I’m asking Quincy, ‘I’m hearing rumors that Marvin was gay’ and I’m like, ‘Was he gay?’” Howard recalled asking Jones, who passed away in November.
“And Quincy’s like, ‘Yes.’”
Howard then decided he “could not” star in Daniels’ movie.
“They would’ve wanted to do that, and I wouldn’t have been able to do that,” he said of portraying a gay person.
Maher interjected, “You mean you couldn’t kiss a guy on screen in a movie?”
Howard replied, “No.
Because I don’t fake it.”
“I couldn’t kiss a man either,” Maher agreed.
Howard went as far to say: “That would f— me. Coming from a poverty-stricken background and abusive childhood, Gaye became the first Black singer to sign a million-dollar record deal and found massive success as a global superstar.
If I kissed some man, I would cut my lips off.”
Meanwhile, Maher paused, awkwardly chuckling, and added, “It does not make me homophobic to not want to kiss a man.”
“That’s fine, do what you love to do, but don’t do it at me, don’t aim it at me,” Howard concluded, “and I can’t play that character 100%, I can’t.
The big news is that a deal has been reached with both the singer's estate and Motown to acquire the rights to all of Gaye's best-known tracks, which has been a major stumbling block for many previous attempts at getting the project off the ground.
Dr. James Baldwin.