larry king. howard thought it meant that i did a great job and that everybody would love me from that point forward and down because from that moment on worth anything i did was front page news and you get a script for so what do you look for i never finished the script you know read up like page thirty and if i'm not intrigued by the care you know the nun in it plus you know some people became divas and i became a little bit of a diva myself corps the arrogance is necessary just to remember that this is this is me we're all next on larry king now. we're going to larry king our special guest terrence howard he's

a great actor one of my favorites the oscar nominated actor known for his roles in the butler crash and hustle and flow and now he's reviving his role as quick and best man holiday the long awaited follow up to nine hundred ninety nine s. best man best man holiday will be in theaters november fifteenth thankful we talk about that so about the butler how did you get that part in that great that's a civil rights movie for all time what's funny about that i was chasing that film for six years laura ziskin you know head uphill heads ups used to head up stand up to cancer who just lost the battle this year to last year to it and she had that script and we were campaigning for it for a long time you want to play that i want to play the butler and then when lee got it six years later lee wanted me to play the butler you know and he teamed me up with oprah and it was just. to make the age difference work and so i knew when they

mentioned when they have forced come in i was like this is going to go to forcibly cause me is like look it's like look rather and i don't know what to do i want you in this movie but i don't have anything left for you except this one little bitty character which i wouldn't want to offend you with it you know it's a guy who lives next door to her and us having an affair with her and he's like but you're too pretty for it you know we have to ugly you up some way you know we do it pat and i said i said well my. front tooth is a cap and now i said i could take that out and he was like oh don't you do it t.t. don't you do it because i will what can we set up to did it support it and so i took my tooth and came down there and oprah had never seen me you know because i had for twenty three years i've had this you know perfect you know this fake and i hadn't seen it for twenty three years and over who use

normally looks me in the eye and so and then later with my eyes oprah kept looking at my mouth and couldn't get away from looking at my mom and then after the second day she wasn't looking i'm out there the more she. and i felt so free absolutely free so no regrets that you weren't the lead in the. best man holiday it's a very it's entirely black cast right yeah we have this guy in there. but it was world to it what to show now best man came out in fourteen years yeah and nine hundred ninety eight what heechul long for for everybody has you know people go a little hollywood everybody starts making money and they feel like we don't need each other and we can you know but as life abs inflows you know finally we realized we needed each other and malcolm went back to the table brought us all together for dinner two years ago it was like are you guys willing to do this movie again and we

were like yeah we are the whole cast came back right everybody you know some people became divas you know guys and girls and i became a little bit of a diva myself of course. if you learned how to fill up your own shoes you know for years like as a black man that's the strangest thing when. oftentimes a black man talk to other people they tend to have a hit to the side or they lower the bass in their voice because of the stereotype of not trying to seem intimidating so the hardest thing is learning to actually speak with the with the baseness in a voice to stand up straight and. so sometimes we go a little overboard with it and for me and now there's the arrogance is necessary just to remember that this is this is me here. i guess i understand the movie ends

with a cliffhanger centered on you does that mean we have a third film coming. in or it's all about how it performs. it should do well when your own got it the movie covers like where malcolm first was going to make this rated r. i was like how do you make a holiday movie rated r. he said it's high it's adult subject matter and i was like what are you going to lose half your audience and he was like i'm trying to tell him that an absolute truth and story and truth and honesty in this story and so he went for it in as a result when you watch it it takes you through all the rides of friendship all the downfall is a lack of faithfulness in your friendship learning how to forgive but in dealing with tragedy at the same time and in a humor kind of keeps us going you like playing you more i haven't done it for fifteen years fifteen already is a serious business so you can't play it funny it is funny but you've got to play it

live play it seriously in the first movie i got in so much trouble because they hired me because i was doing the sick on call it sparks marx's sparks and they hired me as the comedian so they would tell me ok ok clinton terrence you need to deliver your line quicker because you get a haircut and more saying there sit there are lines like and he take a beat and a half behind it and i was like whoa as like but he's thinking about what they said would you say that on just a lens like no i'm not saying a lot i'm thinking about looking say it like it's a joke as one for us is like no as if you can cut it out any way you want to do it but he's serious about what he said a correct and as a result of him being serious the audience listen to it and they could find humor in it can't wait to see a best man holiday will be in theaters november fifteenth miss a smash it's incredible you made a movie this year prisoners with you jack when jake delhomme. want it better not do that was an amazing movie i think it frightened people you know it's jars of

the family because there's no way to protect your family from what might happen right outside of two children take them away and then switch it b.m. then what do you do with that if your kid is taken you know how do you respond do you become hannibal lector and torture somebody or do you become jesus and you know i'm hoping for good and that dichotomy of that line of demarcation between more rally and responsibility. that's bubbling always break. you were great everybody i mean. melissa leo i fell in love with her all over you know she's a beast she is a beast when it comes to the industry because she is fearless absolutely fearless and. fake people i hate fake actors i hate they producers i hate they get industry

so when you see someone that's willing to live or die that's the people you want to be around when you when you get a script so what do you look for. it's not what i look for is more what i hoped to feel like with the white house one flow i read the first page that first monologue and i didn't read the rest of the script and i was just like man i just look for the truth of it. i'm never finished ascript read up to like page thirty and if i'm not intrigued by the character you know not in it and i never finish the script until it's time to shoot that scene because i like not knowing where the person is going you know in prisoners you play your you jack when you both have your children take them you're sort of secondary to him he's the violent character and you sort of don't want to do this was it hard to play off that because in my nature

. i would like to imagine invasion myself as being like you know colored over like i would go and man up about this situation but then there's there's a mean streak of morality that border the characters choices and dealing with the situation you know he could never let go of that morality of that whole you know and that was kind of neat because i don't i don't i don't know that fear inside of myself so in order to live it through made it kind of nice there's fame come late to you. i was always famous. why did you become an actor i've realized i became an actor after my mom died. four years ago from colon cancer and i think i i thought i became an actor because i knew how to play with my emotions but after my mom's death i realized that i became an actor because when my little brother was born you know up until then my mom

doted over me but then when my little brother was born and looked like her father she wanted him to be an actor so i thought if i became an actor i would win my mother's approval and. two thousand and eight when my mother died i lost this i lost my appreciation for the business i mean i lost the love of it and now because i don't have anybody to please anymore with that sort board back the fans a lot of them would come up and say what she did in this movie moved me or i was the first time someone called me mr howard a young actor called me mr howard and i appreciated that and i saw an appreciation of what i had brought to the table and when you were nominated for an academy award did not change things yeah i did but i didn't understand it at the time you know i thought. i thought it meant that i did a great job and that everybody would love me from that point forward and now you know it's like martin luther king said history has seized me because from that

moment onward anything i did was front page news everybody was him i couldn't make any little mistakes anymore and that's a hard thing to come to grips with i interviewed dr king a couple times spencer i knew nelson mandela spent time at his house interviewed him you played him yeah i always like to play a living person with nelson and now i believe. the saddest thing about that is i never got to talk to him before. so i felt like i was kind of stealing but i knew that he had sacrificed most of his freedom and his his youth for everyone else so all like it felt amazing because i can grab from the sorrow but also you know garnish some of the hope that he had and i was a changed man from that moment forward because you can't you know when he got circumcised at sixteen years old you know they have to if you give me

a moment you know they take seven or eight boys out of the village and they put them in front of the schama and you know they have their manhood sitting there and the shopman comes by and he grabs the four skin and he comes down with it with a hatchet and he chops off the four skin and they're supposed to say immediately indian door which means i am a man and when they cut himself. he hesitated for like thirty seconds and that always bothered him and he said he would never hesitate again to do what he was supposed to do and i kind of took that and to you know that character and i got to play the younger him you know before he was aware of the response of where did you learn your craft my great grandmother was an actress and i only have one acting lesson in my life and it was with her she she taught me the

five w's who what when where why who are you what are you trying to accomplish when are you going to accomplish where will it be accomplished and why you need to accomplish it and she said once you know those things then you know the character and you can follow it through and the rest of it you just figure it out as you go do you get scripts all the time now yeah i don't read them right of time mostly you don't even look at the titles of it and there's an agent helping me and i go through it you know and then if somebody is really persistent and pushing something you know then i'll take a little moment on it but most of the time you know i like you pass by a million people on the street throughout the day and some of them want your attention and some of them need your attention and you can't give your attention to everybody if you reject something you regretted. now i think i believe everything happens the way it's supposed to and you can't label a future in general and someone else did it didn't bother you if that did well or

not did well or whatever now i've learned to follow my course and i know out of the half a billion sperm that was sent into my mama and now the only reason i got to the egg is because i didn't look back or look to the side i stay focused on on my my goal we're talking about terraces ideal woman and we talk about oprah all be the same and get to the heart of and it will break. i'm. led. to. the. celebs take the lead very hard to take the lead to get along here the club has never had sex with the perfect their lives let's play.

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the breaking news. alexander's family cry tears of snow white and great things out there that had rendered it a court of law found online is a story made for the movies playing out in real life. terrence howard you'll see him and best man holiday in theaters november fifteenth what was it like to work with oprah and here you have comments about her breasts to touch them in the movie. i don't know if i touched and i tell you did i touch the clothes that was near the that was attached to the breasts yes but it's the. i found the funniest thing about her as like i've known her for the last twelve years and to make gatherings. quincy jones introduced me to were initially and so

there was a camaraderie and a level of fun i've seen her and her rollers you know and ropes i've seen her just as as oprah not not as the icon oprah so i approached her you know it's just the sixteen year old girl that was abandoned and was looking for somebody to love you know and i didn't see in on the mystique of oprah i just saw the woman and her eyes are beautiful you get drawn into it and she can put up the wall if she wants but for whatever reason she had a soft spot for me and she let me and he was a good lady i wonder always been friends with her for. years and she does show in baltimore yeah long before you know or. describe to me your ideal woman in elle magazine you said i like woman who look like me generally are attracted to women who look like you because the most beautiful thing they choose your own reflection share on the never heard a bad thing like that before but isn't it true you look for women who look like you

yeah you look for someone who looks like your mom someone that mom maybe but who you look like you look like your mom you said in an interview don't believe in premarital sex i don't believe in it but hell you have to practice it and i don't believe they are believe in smoke and that i still smoke your grandfather and i am a granddaddy what do you have a little girl ten month old daughter granddaughter was it like. i realize that when i had my children i thought that ok i could live forever because my kids looked like me and i saw my spirit in them but when i had my granddaughter i realize that life is eternal because i saw my grandmother and my granddaughter and i realize that they never die as you son stuart are now my daughters daughter and daughter starter and now you are you a protective father completely but i mean even when me and my first wife get divorced and she moved back to philly i bought

a house two blocks away from our just so that because i don't believe that a man could really look after a spot family if he's twenty minutes away i wanted to be twenty seconds away from the house so if my kids call and i had a problem if some i was choking i can get there and twenty seconds are huge holders would most know my family is my family as i studied for years and had a hard time because it. takes a lot of discipline and i haven't mastered that discipline and you know it takes a lot of faith you believe in god completely i believe in a great creator but i don't think any human being really has. has mastered the knowledge of what the creator of the universe really is. you believe in an afterlife i don't believe in death or you mean but the address said iraq is nothing but frozen music and music moves in octaves and everything has the same components

of iraq once a vibration begins it never ends and goes where you do depart the early do depart but you refold in you unfold again and you re fold and unfold to get reincarnation or just a different adoration of what's necessary we've you know we're all made from the very beginning from from god himself his own nature the nature of the universe that's why i say you're fourteen point five billion years old same as i have same as this cup you know but often times we. forget that everything is alive and still breathing and everything still has a prime resonant frequency moving through it and still and taking energy intake and pushing it out we're all still there a lot and that makes everything sacred and we treat everything sacred everything's wonderful by the way what's your next film after a best man holiday. right now i mean scripts right now. she's taking in a lot of things in life i mean i've got

a company where we grow diamonds cyo and i went to school for chemical engineering and so. while pratt institute and i have my doctorate from south carolina university i'm going on regret from brett right a little. english a semi was yeah right it was amazing all of the spoke to that question brooklyn it's early days of school we have some social media questions for you stephen martin facebook wants to know the defining moment of your career you think the defining moment for me was probably in the best man line it was what i explained before because every time before then anytime somebody would produce he would ask me to do something i would just do it in which is caveat it was in that first movie that i sat down i had just been fired from this thing called harlem aria because i would follow along with what they wanted to do and i was like well you know what

i'm tired of b. and everybody else is playtoy so that that was the first time when i actually said no i'm going to take my time and he's serious about this and when i did hustle and flow it followed up with. john singleton wanted me to slap. the girl playing lexus when she caught me i b i t and i was like no that's not in the script you want me to slap her and throw her down the stairs and i was like you will never regain the character from that he said he said ok well i'll just have to stop and do and i said if you had to stop and do it then i won't you know you might as well have to start man finish the rest of the script because i'm not doing it and i went to my trailer and packed up my things and i was ready to go home because that was in the movie that signed up for and six hours later it took them six hours to reconfigure their thoughts they came

and they shot it the way we were supposed to land and i muddy it martyr's via twitter wants to know about your love for baby wipes. when elle magazine first asked me about that i really thought i was doing a great service to humanity because i had when i had my first daughter aubrey we ran out of we ran out of baby ran out of wipes and i looked down at the top of the paper that i normally use and there was no way i was going to take dry toilet paper and wipe my baby with it so i went to get a rag and washed it and did everything i was supposed to do. i said why don't we do that as human beings you know as adults so i started using baby wipes because and i found out i got fewer colds throughout the year and now my underwear was claim no no street. at a big d z d two two two two one zero if you still read the watchtower and awake. at kyra's actually tweets this crying really make you get some booty. no woman

wants a man but being honest you know if you can be honest with your emotions some tears are from god and people like that mad being twitter wants to know is hollywood allowed to make a movie about black folks without you in it. i think that should be blasphemy if they were. oh if it is a show with a game called if you only knew first girl you have a kissed my mama over what about other mom it was a girl name when they she was my best friend's sister we were six years old guilty pleasure. smoking childhood celebrity crush janet jackson and the. liars it's me too secret talent. can write backwards with both hands. how do you

find that out i was child to be difficult in school and like i was dyslexic and. you describe you. frightened exhilarated and son of god and nature quality you appreciate most in others compassion. i think worldly chocolate or vanilla. chocolate i was going to say that. they're on a desert island what three things do you have with you a tooth brush. a book of walter russell's a. new concept of the universe and. an imagination if you could have something named after you what would be

a sign proudest accomplishment. being able to. take my mom to the oscars tell me something no one knows about you. but there are a few people now that i have synesthesia you know what synesthesia. and means when you see a color you hear the tone to it or you hear music you see the color really. since john had everyone has it's goes into at your feet if you're in if it's when a kid wants to put something in its mouth it's because that's the most developed sense within his body and he has an expectation of what that shit tastes like and what it looks like so if you don't allow them to try it out those nerves die there is you're an amazing person thank you very grand. thank you want to thank terrence

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