Kevin Hart has yet another hit on his hands, folks! The Wedding Ringer debuted at #2 at the weekend box office, making a little over $20,000,000 in its opening weekend (a far second, as folks in middle America went in droves to help American Sniper rake in more than $100 million in its opening weekend). While promoting the movie on The Breakfast Club late last week, Hart was asked if he would ever play a homosexual character on the big screen. Surprisingly, he said no, because according to the comedian, it’s not something he’s comfortable with. It all started when Charlamagne asked Hart if there is one role he regrets turning down (start the video at the 32:30 mark):
Kevin Hart: “One role I regret is Tropic Thunder. Brandon T. Jackson, he got the part. But in my defense…first of all, before I say this, I’m politically correct. To the gay community, I respect and appreciate any and everything that you all do. And as people, I love you. The part was way…”
Angela Yee: “Gayer?”
Hart: “Yeah, in the beginning. The dude was doing a lot of stuff in the draft that I read. He was like ‘Yo, c’mon man, let me…let me…”
Yee: “Suck your…”
Hart: “Yeah, it was a lot of…it was real flagrant. It was a lot of stuff and I was like, ‘I can’t do this.'”
Yee: “But could you play a gay role?”
Hart: “No. Not because I have any ill will or disrespect. It’s because I feel like I can’t do that because I don’t think I’m really going to dive into that role 100 percent because of the insecurities about myself trying to play that part. Does that make sense? Like, what I think people are going to think while I’m trying to do this is going to stop me from playing that part the way that I’m supposed to. I’m not at that acting point in my career. Several years later when I’ve done this part and you say, ‘Hey Kevin, I thought you said you would never do it.’ ‘I’m at a point where I want to take a chance. This role made sense, this story made sense.’ I may do it. Everybody got on me about the dress on SNL. ‘Yo, you said you would never do it!’ Thought I wouldn’t. They presented the sketch, I thought it was funny. I was like ‘Yo, I kind of look like the little girl, that would be funny!”
In the end, Hart says that he might find THE role, possibly playing a gay character, and take it on because it could be just the right move for his career at that time. But at this moment, playing a homosexual on-screen is “not on the drawing board” as of right now…
However, Hart has played a gay character in the past, even if it wasn’t a serious character. In Scary Movie 4, he and Anthony Anderson reenacted (in a comical manner of course) a scene out of Brokeback Mountain. They got a little too close in a tent and sang Lionel Richie’s “Hello” before hinting to the audience that they had sex. Throwback moment:
