Actor Neal McDonough claims he was blacklisted in Hollywood and "lost everything" after refusing to kiss female co-stars out of respect for his wife.
Though not necessarily a leading man in Hollywood, McDonough has put together an impressive career with appearances in shows like Band of Brothers, Desperate Housewives, Justified and Yellowstone as well as movies such as Star Trek: First Contact, Minority Report, Flags of Our Fathers, Walking Tall and Captain America: The First Avenger.
He has been married to Ruve Robertson since 2003 and has a clause inserted in all his contracts that allows him to refuse any intimate scenes with another actor.
“I’d always had in my contracts I wouldn’t kiss another woman on-screen,” McDonough said on the Noting Left Unsaid podcast. “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.
“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 recently headlined The Last Rodeo, a movie which sees a former bull-riding world champion return to the rodeo world to pay for his son's brain surgery.
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