American singer and actor Tyrese Gibson is speaking up on some of the harsh realities in Hollywood. Gibson in a recent interview with Leah A. Henry, the host of radio show Leah’s Lemonade, shared that he has lost some roles to “Empire” star actor Terrence Howard because the latter is light-skinned.
“Terrence Howard has no idea how many roles that I was about to book and they went with him because he’s the lighter-skinned black man with the green eyes,” the 42-year-old said. “It’s crazy to me, like, I’m No. 1. I’m the star. I’m this blue-black, you know, all of the things that I was laughed about in the ‘hood.”
The rapper-turned-actor added, “And then you look at Lupita [Nyong’o] and the Viola Davises of the world, and there is this kind of, this shift that has happened. I think we should all stay humble because it’s interesting how white people created this kind of colorism. The mixed-race gets to be in the house and the black blacks get to work in the hot sun and pick cotton.”
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Gibson further added that he also faced discrimination due to colorism even as a child.
“Throughout my whole childhood, it was not cool to be dark skin in the hood. It was always the light-skinned black people that seemed to have gotten all the attention and all the love and considered pretty, or attractive, or handsome,” he said. “And since I’ve been in Hollywood we dealt with the same thing.”
However, he and Howard are buddies and are currently working together on a film “The System”. Gibson who recommended the “Empire” star for a role stars and also produces in it.
“We’re able to joke about it now. I was the star of the film. They had an idea to go with someone else, who I won’t mention, and then I suggested Terrence Howard,” the actor explained. “And he thanked me for like, a week straight”
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