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Terrence Howard did not want to get it on in a Marvin Gaye biopic.
The Empire alum said he turned down playing the late music icon in a movie because the role likely required him to kiss a man.
“I wouldn’t have been able to do that,” Howard admitted on the April 27 episode of Bill Maher‘s Club Random podcast. “That would f–k me. I would cut my lips off.”
He continued, “If I kissed a man, I would cut my lips off.”
The 56-year-old went on to explain that he wouldn’t have been able to “fake it,” noting, “I can’t play that character 100 percent.”
Howard added, “I can’t surrender myself to a place that I don’t understand.”
Gaye died at age 44 after being shot by his dad Marvin Gay Sr. in 1984. During his life, he was married to Anna Gordy from 1963 to 1977 and to Janis Hunter from 1977 to 1982.
