Neal McDonough says he was blackballed by Hollywood for refusing kissing scenes

Actor Neal McDonough was frank about the moral line he refused to cross who finally led him to be “Blackballed” in Hollywood.

In a recent episode of the Podcast “Nothing Left Unsaid”, the star of the last rodeo “revealed the reason why he was on the black list of concerts – he refused to kiss someone on the screen.

The podcast host asked: “Can you enter a little more details for people who … don’t know what made you black?”

“I had always had in my contracts that I do not kiss another woman on the screen,” said McDonough. “It was me, really, who had a problem. I said to myself:” Yeah, I don’t want to make you pass. I know we’re going to start having children, and I don’t want to get my children to pass. “”

Neal McDonough breaks his non-Kiss rule for the scene “The Last Rodeo”

Neal McDonough said that Hollywood “had” turned on “him when he refused to kiss on the screen. (Images Jesse Grant / Getty for A + E Networks)

McDonough, 59, continued to open up the way his personal limits did not seem to stay with people in Hollywood and the way the problem had an impact on his livelihood.

“Hollywood completely turned against me,” he said. “I lost everything you might imagine.”

“Not just material houses and things. But your boastful, your cool, which you are, your identity, everything. My identity was an actor and a very good. And once you do not have this identity, you are a little lost in a fall.”

Neal McDonough has been married to his wife, Ruvé, since 2003. (Araya Doheny / Getty Images for Janie’s Fund)

While McDonough admitted that he had rooted for years, he said that his turning point was when he gave up drinking. The Hollywood actor was then able to realign his sense of objective.

“I stopped drinking and everything changed. Literally, the clouds separated,” said McDonough. “OH.

McDonough’s commitment to his Ruvé wife was the engine of the non -Kissing clause – a rule that he is held to date.

“This is the other. You know, it’s a beautiful woman, and everything else is pale compared to my rude wife,” he said. “But in all seriously, it was just something that I was never comfortable.”

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Neal McDonough and his wife share five children. (Getty Images)

In May, McDonough explained how he broke his non-Kissing rule for his film, “The Last Rodeo”.

McDonough spoke to Fox News Digital of what it was to return to the saddle after playing in Western projects, including “Yellowstone”, as well as to finally “kiss the girl at the end”.

Watch: Neal McDonough finally gets his kiss on the screen in `The Last Rodeo ”

“I have set up horses all my life, so jumping into this saddle is different because I have never really been in this type of saddle before,” said McDonough. “I was not the hero of the film. I was never in the position where I can kiss the girl at the end because, as everyone knows, I will not kiss another woman on the screen.”

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McDonough added that it took a little persuasion so that Ruvé, who helped produce “the last rodeo” and played like his wife on the screen, on board, especially during their romantic scenes.

Neal McDonough convinced his wife to appear with him in “The Last Rodeo” because his character had to “kiss the girl at the end”. (Paul Archuleta / Getty Images)

“I convinced my wife, rude. I said,” Darling, you must be in the film because I have to kiss the girl at the end. “She says:” I don’t know how to act “. I say to myself: ‘Well, you do it now.’ “”

Directed by his longtime friend and filmmaker Jon Avnet, the moment was not only a cinematographic kiss for McDonough, he explained, but the culmination of years of faith and dedication to his marriage which resisted the pressures of Hollywood.

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