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Veteran actor Neal McDonough says that Hollywood turned his back on him because he was putting clauses in his contracts that barred him from kissing women who weren’t his wife.
McDonough has been a professional actor since the 1990s, beginning his career with films such as Darkman, Angels In The Outfield, and Star Trek: First Contact before going on to have more prominent parts in projects such as Minority Report, Walking Tall, The Guardian, and Flags of our Fathers
McDonough has also been acting on television all the while, appearing in series such as Desperate Housewives, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Justified, CSI and CSI: NY, Mob City, Agents of SHIELD, Arrow, The Flash, Yellowstone, and more recently, 9-1-1: Lone Star and Tulsa King.
Longtime actor Neal McDonough says Hollywood shunned him because he refused to kiss actresses
“I’d always had in my contracts I wouldn’t kiss another woman on-screen. My wife didn’t have any problem with it. It was me, really, who had a problem with it. When I couldn’t do it, and they couldn’t understand it, Hollywood just completely turned on me. They wouldn’t let me be part of the show anymore,” McDonough said on the Nothing Left Unsaid podcast.
“For two years, I couldn’t get a job and I lost everything you could possibly imagine. Not just houses and 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 lost in a tailspin.”
McDonough has been married to his wife Ruvé Robertson since 2003. If you look at McDonough’s filmography, the only year since marrying his wife in which he appeared in no films was 2005. Still, McDonough had a role on the TV series Medical Investigation during that time.
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