Gained’t kiss, will inform.
Neal McDonough has had an up and down expertise in Hollywood. The “Suits” alum, 59, defined on the “Nothing Left Unsaid” podcast this week how his profession as soon as fell aside as a result of he refuses to kiss his co-stars.
“I’d always had in my contracts that I wouldn’t kiss another woman on screen,” McDonough informed hosts Tim Inexperienced and Troy Inexperienced.
“My wife didn’t have any problem with it. It was me, really, who had a problem with it,” the actor mentioned. “I was like, ‘Yeah, I don’t want to put you through it. I know we’re gonna start having kids,’ and I didn’t wanna put my kids through it.”
The “Desperate Housewives” star continued, “Intimacy is a whole different thing for me. When I wouldn’t do it and they couldn’t understand it, Hollywood just completely turned on me and they wouldn’t let me be part of the show anymore.”
McDonough has been married to South African mannequin Ruvé Robertson since 2003 and so they have 5 kids collectively.
He didn’t title the present he was allegedly fired from, however again in 2019, he informed Nearer Weekly that he misplaced his job on the ABC drama sequence “Scoundrels” in 2010 due to his no-sex-scene rule.
“It was a horrible situation for me,” he mentioned on the time. “After that, I couldn’t get a job because everybody thought I was this religious zealot. I am very religious. I put God and family first, and me second. That’s what I live by. It was hard for a few years.”
On the podcast, McDonough mentioned that he was unemployed for 2 years after the firing.
“I couldn’t get a job and I lost everything you could possibly imagine,” he shared. “Not just houses, material things, but your swagger, your cool, who you are, your identity, everything. My identity was an actor, and a really good one, and once you don’t have that identity, you’re kind of in a tailspin. And I was in a big, ugly tailspin for a couple of years.”
McDonough additionally mentioned that the incident led him to drink extra.
“I never drank during the set. I never drank during work because I love my craft and I take it with the utmost seriousness in everything I do,” he defined. “But after work or days off or anything, I still feel like I wasn’t a man. I didn’t feel that I was doing the right things or some things just weren’t clicking.”
McDonough’s TV appearing credit additionally embody “Band of Brothers,” “Arrow,” “Justified,” “American Horror Story: Double Feature,” “Yellowstone” and “Tulsa King.”
Within the 2019 Nearer Weekly interview, McDonough gave one of many “Band of Brothers” producers credit score for serving to revive his profession.
“Graham Yost called me and said, ‘Hey, I want you to be the bad guy on Justified,’” he recalled, including, “I knew that was my shot back at the title.”
One in every of McDonough’s most up-to-date roles was within the function movie “The Last Rodeo.” His spouse portrayed his onscreen partner and so they shared a kiss within the film.
