{"id":35861,"date":"2025-07-31T02:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T02:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/35861\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T02:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T02:38:07","slug":"neal-mcdonough-says-hollywood-kicked-him-out-for-refusing-to-kiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/35861\/","title":{"rendered":"Neal McDonough says Hollywood kicked him out for refusing to kiss"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a rare instance of an actor claiming he get shut out of Hollywood for doing too little\u00a0kissing of his co-workers, instead of too much, actor Neal McDonough has said he was basically kicked out of the industry for a couple of years because of his refusal to smooch women who were not his wife. Yellowstone and Justified vet McDonough was talking (per TMZ<\/a>) on the\u00a0Nothing Left Unsaid\u00a0podcast<\/a> when he claimed that \u201cHollywood just completely turned on me\u201d when he made it clear that he was serious about provisions in his contracts that he wouldn\u2019t kiss anyone but his wife, model Ruv\u00e9 Robertson. \u201cThey wouldn\u2019t let me be part of the show anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tulsa King co-star McDonough is well-known as a devout Catholic\u2014he\u2019s said in other interviews that he goes to church \u201cevery day\u201d\u2014and says the no-kissing thing is plain as day in all of his contracts. Presumably citing a period in 2010, when he was reportedly fired from short-lived ABC show Scoundrel\u00a0for refusing to film sex scenes with Virginia Madsen, McDonough says that stance became a massive turn-off for casting agents. \u201cFor two years, I couldn\u2019t 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\u2014everything. My identity was an actor, and a really good one. And once you don\u2019t have that identity, you\u2019re kind of lost in a tailspin.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you go looking for it, you\u00a0can\u00a0see the gap McDonough is talking about; from 2010 to 2011, he only scored a handful of voice roles, which, on the \u201cNeal McDonough is in everything\u201d scale of Hollywood casting, is pretty light. (The next year he was cast in Captain America: The First Avenger, presumably because Dum Dum Dugan\u2019s lips are only for killing Nazis.)<\/p>\n

McDonough has talked about his stance on this in the past<\/a>, including the fact that he\u2019s very upfront with directors and showrunners about his boundaries. (Reportedly, Mark Cherry once told him \u201cBut this is Desperate Housewives!\u201d before ultimately relenting.) Luckily for him, the past 15 years have seen Hollywood come around pretty aggressively on the fact that Neal McDonough plays a very creepy bad guy, a role that very rarely involves putting lips on anything (except the scenery, which McDonough remains comfortable giving a big ol\u2019 chew when the moment calls for it).<\/p>\n

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