Neal McDonough says

Neal McDonough says he was excluded from Hollywood because he refused to kiss others than his wife Ruvé McDonough for his projects.

“I always had in my contracts that I wouldn't kiss any other woman on the screen” Nothing was unspoken Podcast. “My wife had no problem with it.

But McDonough – an experienced character actor who is known for his role YellowstonePresent Brothers band, ArrowPresent SuitsPresent Desperate housewivesAnd more -says it didn't take long for it to get into difficulties about his “No -Kissing” rule.

“If I didn't do it and they couldn't understand it, Hollywood just turned completely,” he said. “They would no longer let me be part of the show. And for two years I couldn't get a job and I lost everything they could imagine. Not only houses and material things, but their boast, their cool, who they are, their identity, everything.”

McDonough added that he was in “an ugly, ugly tailpin” for a few years, and said it was not just a problem that he was fighting to find work. He claims that at some point he was released from a TV show after he refused to turn an intimate scene.

“You came to my trailer and the wardrobe lady says: 'Sorry, do you want to wear a sock for the scene?'”, McDonough recalled. “I remember that I said: 'I'm coming from Cape Cod and I don't wear socks. I've never worn socks. I am a loafer and not socks.' She says: “What?”

The actor said that a producer had arrived a few minutes later to make it clear that he needed him to wear a modest sock for a simulated sex scene. McDonough immediately pushed back and led to an ultimatum: “You said:” Well, unless you do it, we have to replace it, “he remembered.” Now I like it, then replace myself because I won't do it. ' And they fired me. ”

He continued: “I remember how I had flown from Albuquerque and had flown over the desert in New Mexico and noticed: 'Okay, I was just fired from a TV show. I would have a better chance to survive in this desert when I end up in Hollywood.' And I was right. ”

According to McDonough, the Fallout contained a difficult patch in its career and “a very painful, costly torture”, which was caused by the show that sued him.

Nevertheless, the actor claims that he would do everything again. “I knew that I did the right thing for my marriage,” he said in the interview. “I knew I did the right thing [God]. And I knew I did the right thing for myself. ”

While McDonough was not named the show from which he was released in the podcast, he said that he said Closer In 2019 he was dropped out of the short-lived ABC series Villain In 2010 because he had refused to film intimate scenes and claim: “Everyone thought I was this religious zealer.” He added that he got a call from his Group of brothers Producer Graham Yost about a role in Justified marked his comeback.

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Since then, McDonough has a complete circle moment with the kind approval of his new film. The last rodeo, What McDonough wrote, staged and played. The film about a former bull rider who celebrated a comeback demanded more than one kiss on the screen for his character – so McDonough solved the problem by pressing his wife into the film.

“Well, my wife is really hot. She is a good -looking woman, and everything else can fade compared to my wife Ruvé,” he joked before he explained, “it was financed. It was ready to go and I said:” I don't do the film unless you play my wife. I will not kiss any other woman on the screen. “And she says:” Well, I'm not an actor. “I am like: 'Well, you are now.

Listen to McDonough, look back on his career and depths in the Podcast episode above.