Omar Gooding Reveals Turning Down Gay Roles Hurt Career: "I Will Not Compromise"

[MajesticLion]

Honestly, there are more people who didn't do "gay roles" before the popped, but every once in a while there is, and all it does is prove that "you have to do or be gay to get on" to some people.

For every one actor who has a role like that, you could name 5 who don't, but it won't matter.

In fairness...that you've seen.

If your casting "experience" is in someone's private collection, you've also paid that price. Or you've done such work in plays that nobody saw, but it's still on record.





Respect due to that man.

 

[O.Red]

Chadwick aint really blow until his mid 30s.

Neither did Majors

 

[O.Red]

In fairness...that you've seen.

If your casting "experience" is in someone's private collection, you've also paid that price. Or you've done such work in plays that nobody saw, but it's still on record.





Respect due to that man.

This is a textbook example of moving the goalposts

 

[MajesticLion]

This is a textbook example of moving the goalposts

How so? There's any number of ways for these people to get their pound of flesh. They're the gatekeepers to a lot of the industry.

 

[CreepyMcCreeperson]

Are there THAT many gay roles that an entire career can end for not taking them?

 

[O.Red]

How so? There's any number of ways for these people to get their pound of flesh. They're the gatekeepers to a lot of the industry.

Because the topic was having to do gay roles to blow up

Once that was disproven you made a pivot to "Ok but they probably did some gay shyt you don't know about"

Some of you won't be satisfied with the idea that not every black male actor does gay roles to blow up

 

[boriquaking]

Didn't he do one pretty close on a gay cruise ship

horrible movie

and plead guilty to a series of bizarre and embarrassing groping charges in the Manhattan DA's office lol

That’s cuba gooding

 

[MajesticLion]

Because the topic was having to do gay roles to blow up

Once that was disproven you made a pivot to "Ok but they probably did some gay shyt you don't know about"

Some of you won't be satisfied with the idea that not every black male actor does gay roles to blow up

Nah. Mainstream roles aren't the only access key in play here. "Allyship" in any form does, especially whatever can be held up as evidence later if you don't play along.

And of course not every actor. But major "stars"...? I don't put anything past these people. Don't take my word for it, by all means. Ask anyone who totes cameras around long enough. That type of pressure is just par for the course.

 

[steadyrighteous]

Because the topic was having to do gay roles to blow up

Once that was disproven you made a pivot to "Ok but they probably did some gay shyt you don't know about"

Some of you won't be satisfied with the idea that not every black male actor does gay roles to blow up

The dedication to and steadfast belief in the conspiracy is almost as weird as the theory itself.

It's one thing to believe it to be true, its another thing to take proof that counters it and contort it and move the goalposts to keep the belief alive.

 

[DaddyFresh]

Yeah thats why his career is dead. His oozimg talents were shunned because he turned down too many gay roles lmao. Zero accountability.

 

[Zero]

The dedication to and steadfast belief in the conspiracy is almost as weird as the theory itself.

It's one thing to believe it to be true, its another thing to take proof that counters it and contort it and move the goalposts to keep the belief alive.

 

[Nostalgic]

Didn't he do one pretty close on a gay cruise ship

horrible movie

and plead guilty to a series of bizarre and embarrassing groping charges in the Manhattan DA's office lol

You thinking about his brother Cuba Goofing Jr.

 

[thenatural]

dude was Angela Bassett's gay husband in 9-1-1 on Fox for years until he was fired for not taking the vaccine

Maybe he said that after he got fired because I damn sure remember that nikka coming out in the 1st episode

 

[DaMos Supreme]

Damn, I believe him too cause he was a good actor but I don’t remember seeing in anything after Soul Food except Prison Break

He had roles on ‘The Game’ and ‘Sons of Anarchy’, prior to 9-1-1

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

I don’t recall him being a good actor to begin with although his over the top portrayal on Baby Boy is fukkin hilarious