Yellowstone star says he 'lost everything' after Hollywood rejection
'I'd always had in my contracts that I wouldn't kiss another woman on screen,' the Boston-born actor and strict Catholic told the podcast hosts Tim Green and Troy Green. McDonough played the role of Malcolm Beck on six episodes of Yellowstone which aired in 2019.
They included: The Reek of Desperation, Only Devils Left, Blood the Boy, Resurrection Day, Behind Us Only Grey and Sins of the Father. McDonough clarified that the contractual demand was at his behest, and not that of his spouse Ruve McDonough, who he's been wed to since 2003 and shares five children with.
'My wife didn't have any problem with it - it was me, really, who had a problem with it,' said McDonough, who's been seen on TV shows such as Desperate Housewives, Tulsa King and Meghan Markle's one-time show Suits . McDonough said it was impossible for Hollywood producers to get that he was dead serious about his demand - and they quickly stopped using him as a result.
'When I wouldn't do it... they couldn't understand,' McDonough said of his refusal to kiss other women on camera. 'Hollywood just completely turned on me, and they wouldn't let me be part of the show anymore. 'For two years, I couldn't get a job and I lost everything you could possibly imagine.' McDonough, who's been in motion pictures such as Star Trek: First Contact, Red 2 and Guns & Moses, said that the loss of work resulted in a domino effect in which everything dear to him began slipping away.
'Not just houses [and] material things, but your swagger, your cool, who you are, your identity - everything,' McDonough said. 'My identity was an actor, and a really good one.' McDonough said that the problems lingered for an extended period. 'Once you don't have that identity, you're kind of lost in a tailspin,' McDonough said. 'And I was in a big, ugly tailspin for a couple of years.'
McDonough's most recent role came in the May feature film The Last Rodeo, which he was a writer on and played the lead role of Joe Wainwright. His spouse Ruvé portrayed the role of his wife Rose Wainwright in the movie, and the two did kiss onscreen.
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