Watch: Drama Actor Roundtable With Rami Malek, Paul Giamatti and More
The actors talk about career mistakes, the lines that they won’t cross and the parts they’d love to land
Cuba Gooding Jr.: “I was in the wilderness of Hollywood for almost ten years”
“I wasn’t getting the roles offered to actors that hadn’t done a third of the roles I had done, or had the popularity I had.” – Cuba Gooding Jr.
Cuba Gooding Jr.: “When I’m not being creative is when I’m frustrated”
Cuba Gooding Jr. hasn’t had the greatest success since winning his Oscar for Jerry Maguire. Let’s just say making Snow Dogs didn’t do much for his career. But now that Gooding is starring in The Trip to Bountiful on Broadway, he feels like things are finally back on track.
Terrence Howard & Cuba Gooding, Jr. Praise George Lucas and Lament the Current State of African-American Cinema
Howard maintains that Hollywood is unwilling to invest in films with African-American casts because of the perceived low earning potential.