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 Terrence Howard
Interview By: Rocco Passafuime While there are plenty of enormously talented African American actors, very few of them have managed to transcend fairly niche fare as effectively as Terrence Howard. His critical notice in films like Crash and Ray and his nomination for a Best Actor Oscar in Hustle & Flow has led him to a diverse array of roles in films like Pride, The Brave One, and August Rush. Now, Howard tackles what is arguably indicative of just how far he’s come in Hollywood. It’s a role as Jim Rhodes in the film adaptation of the Marvel comic book Iron Man. When asked about how he reacted to playing a role in such a huge film, the 39 year old claims he was ecstatic at the numerous potential fringe benefits that would come with playing a big role in a big budget comic book film. “Aware that my character would become more machine, yeah, of course,” Terrence replied, “That’s why I took it. I was more so thinking, ‘How much are y’all going to pay me?’ ‘Cause I saw some people do X - Men and come up! They came up, they came up, they don’t have to worry about a day of work the rest of their life.” “They’re able to go do a million independent films and well, you know. I know all y’all get is $100,000 for this entire budget of the film,” he continues, “You know what, I’ll do it for free. Just pay for my room and board and I’ll do the movie. I would love to be able to do that. Films like Iron Man, it allows you to do that.” However, what excited the actor the most was sharing the screen with an equally illuminating array of co-stars, which includes Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, and Jeff Bridges. Terrence spoke of often how impressed he was by his co-stars’ level of skill. “When they have a stellar cast like that, I got to learn from Robert Downey Jr., I got to learn from Jeff Bridges,” he recalls, “I got to just sit there and admire the poise and the control Gwyneth has. Bam! She’s so quick to absorb new information. How? I mean we would rewrite the script and have two pages of dialogue and she would look at it literally one time, go up there and deliver it!” “Robert would look at it and go, “OK…,” get the main point and jumps to something else immediately,” Howard adds, “You know, immediately, he was able to jump into a whole ‘nother world and create something else that’s right along the lines of it. Myself and Jeff, I mean, I like to prepare the stuff that I’m going to do. You know, I spend the night trying to work it out and make it right and I ... |
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