Neal McDonough says Hollywood put him on the black list after he refused to make kisses

Neal McDonough opened up how Hollywood had closed him after refusing to kiss kisses in an episode of Tim Green “Nothing is unspoken” Podcast, published on Wednesday.

McDonough – whose acting loan “Minority Report”, “Desperate Housewives”, “Captain America: The first avenger”, “suits”, “Yellowstone” and more – encompassed that he had difficulty finding work because he refused to make intimate scenes.

“I always had in my contracts, I wouldn't kiss any other woman on the screen,” said McDonough to Green. “My wife had no problem with it. I was really who had a problem with it. If I couldn't and you couldn't understand it, Hollywood just turned up completely. You wouldn't be part of the show anymore,” he continued.

McDonough, who comes from Dorchester, Massachusetts, and visited Syracuse University, married his wife Ruvé McDonough in 2003. They have five children together.

McDonough continued to work on how the lack of work had affected personally. “I lost everything you can imagine,” he said. “Not only houses and material things, but also their boasting, their cool, who they are, their identity – everything. My identity was an actor and a really good one. And if you don't have this identity, you are somehow lost in a tailpin.”

Fortunately, McDonough has been able to lock up work in recent years.

Neal McDonough opened up how Hollywood had closed him after refusing to kiss kisses in an episode of Tim Green “Nothing is unspoken” Podcast, published on Wednesday.

McDonough – whose acting loan “Minority Report”, “Desperate Housewives”, “Captain America: The first avenger”, “suits”, “Yellowstone” and more – encompassed that he had difficulty finding work because he refused to make intimate scenes.

“I always had in my contracts, I wouldn't kiss any other woman on the screen,” said McDonough to Green. “My wife had no problem with it. I was really who had a problem with it. If I couldn't and you couldn't understand it, Hollywood just turned up completely. You wouldn't be part of the show anymore,” he continued.

McDonough, who comes from Dorchester, Massachusetts, and visited Syracuse University, married his wife Ruvé McDonough in 2003. They have five children together.

McDonough continued to work on how the lack of work had affected personally. “I lost everything you can imagine,” he said. “Not only houses and material things, but also their boasting, their cool, who they are, their identity – everything. My identity was an actor and a really good one. And if you don't have this identity, you are somehow lost in a tailpin.”

Fortunately, McDonough has been able to lock up work in recent years. This year he appeared in the film “The Last Rodeo”, in which his real wife played next to him and allowed him to get a kiss on the screen. The film is available to stream Apple TV. In 2019 he also played in six episodes of Taylor Sheridan's “Yellowstone”. Sheridan also threw him in 10 episodes of “Tulsa King” last year. Both shows are available for streaming Paramount+.