Tracking Terrence: Six Favorite Flicks
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Terrence Howard in Hustle & Flow - © MTV Films |
Samantha Ofole PrinceBURSTOUT Contributor
Covering television and film criticism, music journalism and celebrity news coverage, Samantha is often attending and covering backstage and red-carpet events including the Academy Awards, BET Awards, Grammy Awards, SAG Awards, Golden Globes, and Teen Choice Awards, as well as concerts, book signings, industry parties and movie premieres.
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Terrence Howard really needs no formal introduction. We all know him as the music mogul, Lucious Lyon, from the hugely successful Fox Network drama “Empire.” An actor with incredible versatility, he’s played several cops, a doctor, a politician and a pimp and has been in over 40 movies since making his scene-stealing big screen debut as Cowboy in the 1995 Hughes brother’s film “Dead Presidents.” From the womanizing Quentin in Malcolm D. Lee’s indie film, “The Best Man,” a swim coach in “Pride,” to former South African leader Nelson Mandela in “Winnie Mandela,” the Chicago native has had quite a prolific career.
Samantha Ofole-Prince delves into Howard’s film archives to scoop out our six favorites.
Hustle & Flow
A talented nobody following a dream is always a relatable subject and in” Hustle & Flow,” Howard played a small-time Memphis pimp named DJay, who dreams of becoming a rap star. In a true star making turn, Howard, who starred alongside his “Empire” co-star Taraji P. Henson, commands the screen as DJay and is utterly convincing as a pimp with musical aspirations. Nominated for both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe, Howard performed all the tracks for his character, including “It’s Hard Out Here For A Pimp,” which won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
The Best Man
Director Malcolm D. Lee’s “The Best Man” became one of the top-grossing black movies of all time, and Howard notched up an Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor, an Independent Spirits Award nomination and a Chicago Film Critics Association Award nomination for his role as “Quentin” in this true to life engaging film of career-oriented childhood friends who reunite for a wedding. As a guitar-playing womanizer with no morals nor vocal filter, his character was a hit with audiences and he reprised the role in the 2013 sequel “The Best Man Holiday.”
Lee Daniel’s The Butler
This was Howard’s first flick with “Empire” helmer Lee Daniels and although he had a small role as a neighbor who has a brief fling with Oprah Winfrey’s character, we love this one as it’s one of the boldest cinematic portrayals of the plight of American blacks ever filmed. Inspired by Wil Haygood’s 2008 Washington Post article. Titled “A Butler Well Served by This Election,” it’s a warm, unforgiving, triumphant movie which recounts the story of a fictional Cecil Gaines (Forest Whitaker), a White House butler who served during seven presidential administrations between 1957 and 1986, Winfrey played his wife Gloria, a vulnerable character who has an extramarital paramour with the sleazy neighbor played by Howard.
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The Brave One
![Terrence Howard in The Brave One film, Terrence Howard, The Brave One, NYPD](https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fcdSHQg5NdE/WKnxij6e3OI/AAAAAAAAAjo/Rk4oocbwLKQXtqABIcF_B--8AIlpuqB6gCLcB/s320/Terrence%2BHoward%2Bwith%2BJodie%2BFoster%2Bfrom%2BThe%2BBrave%2BOne%2B.jpg)
Get Rich or Die Tryin
![Terrence Howard in Get Rich or Die Tryin film, gangster, Terrence Howard, get rich or die tryin](https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6WLPTJvQX7E/WKnxpTzBwQI/AAAAAAAAAjs/LpXl6PqF5ckHHMxRm-TfYAQw4aKCQMG9QCLcB/s1600/Howard%2Bis%2BBama%2Bin%2BGet%2BRich%2Bor%2BDie%2BTryin.jpeg)
Red Tails
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Terrence Howard can be seen in the new supernatural thriller “Ghost of New Orleans,” which is out on video on demand and Digital HD release, on February 17. Check out the trailer below:
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