Neal McDonough needs to stay along with his band of brothers in Hollywood.
In reality, the actor, 59, is taking again his earlier remarks that the business turned on him for refusing to kiss his co-stars.
“We need to say thanks, Hollywood,” McDonough's spouse, Ruvé Robertson, stated throughout a joint interview with TMZ on Thursday. “I don't like how individuals are saying that Hollywood turned its again on Neal. No, it didn't. The precise individuals discovered Neal and put him in the appropriate place.”
The producer added, “We need to say thanks, Hollywood. We need to proceed doing unimaginable movies with Neal, giving the appropriate messages. We don't need to say Hollywood turned. Guided us to the place we're is what Hollywood did, and we need to say, ‘Thanks, Hollywood.'”
McDonough echoed his spouse of twenty-two years' sentiments, telling the outlet, “Everybody talks about that stuff that occurred all these years in the past.”
“If it weren't for that, we wouldn't be right here,” the “Yellowstone” alum defined. “These had been stepping stones, and it made our relationship nearer.”
The couple, who share sons Morgan and James and daughters Catherine, London, and Clover, additionally touched on how their youngsters would really feel.
“In the event that they had been to see Dad kissing one other lady, it will harm them,” Robertson admitted. “When Neal swears on movie, which he hardly ever does, we'd inform our children after they had been youthful, ‘Oh, no, that's a dub, that's a voiceover. Dad didn't say S—T,' as a result of we don't swear.”
The mother of 5 additionally credited their fulfilled life to McDonough's time in showbiz.
“We can't clarify and specific how blessed we're, how blissful we're,” Robertson confused. “Every thing that's occurring, speaking about how Hollywood dissed Neal and whatnot — no. Every thing that's occurred has introduced us nearer to the place we are actually.”
Earlier within the week, McDonough had appeared on the “Nothing Left Unsaid” podcast, the place he shared his expertise since breaking into the enterprise in 2001.
“I at all times had in my contracts that I wouldn't kiss one other lady on display,” he revealed to hosts Tim Inexperienced and Troy Inexperienced. “My spouse didn't have any drawback with it. It was me, actually, who had an issue. I used to be like, ‘Yeah, I don't need to put you thru it. I do know we're going to begin having youngsters, and I don't need to put my youngsters via it.'”
Nevertheless, not everybody was understanding towards the “Determined Housewives” star.
“Intimacy is a complete totally different factor for me. Once I wouldn't do it, and so they couldn't perceive it, Hollywood simply utterly turned on me,” stated McDonough. “They wouldn't let me be a part of the present anymore. And for 2 years, I couldn't get a job, and I misplaced every little thing you would probably think about. Not simply homes and materials issues, however your swagger, your cool, who you might be, your identification, every little thing.”
The “Shift” star even felt like he misplaced his identification as a performer.
“My identification was an actor, and a extremely good one,” he acknowledged, “and when you don't have that identification, you're sort of in a tailspin. And I used to be in an enormous, ugly tailspin for a few years.”
After the incident, McDonough – whose appearing credit additionally embody “Band of Brothers,” “Arrow,” “Justified,” and “Tulsa King” – began consuming extra.
“I by no means drank through the set. I by no means drank throughout work as a result of I really like my craft and I take it with the utmost seriousness in every little thing I do,” he shared. “However after work or days off or something, I nonetheless really feel like I wasn't a person. I didn't really feel that I used to be doing the appropriate issues or some issues simply weren't clicking.”
For McDonough, when he put down the bottle, “every little thing simply sort of modified.”
“Actually, the clouds parted. I used to be like, ‘Oh. I don't want this crutch. Oh, individuals are calling me. Oh, I'm profitable. Oh, I do like myself once more. Okay, I'm God's little one, and I've a job to do. Cease wallowing in self-pity. Mud your self off and go hit it onerous.'”
McDonough, who tied the knot with the South African mannequin in 2003, didn't title the present he was allegedly fired from.
Again in 2019, nonetheless, he did inform Nearer Weekly that in 2010, he misplaced his function on the ABC drama “Scoundrels” due to his no-sex-scene rule.
“It was a horrible state of affairs for me,” confessed McDonough. “After that, I couldn't get a job as a result of everyone thought I used to be this non secular zealot. I'm very non secular. I put God and household first, and me second. That's what I dwell by. It was onerous for a number of years.”
Fortunately, one of many “Band of Brothers” producers helped the star revive his profession.
“Graham Yost referred to as me and stated, ‘Hey, I would like you to be the unhealthy man on Justified,'” McDonough recalled. “I knew that was my shot again on the title.”
Today, the Hollywood icon has additionally discovered a approach across the no kissing on display rule.
In McDonough's 2025 function movie, “The Final Rodeo,” Robertson portrayed his on-screen spouse, and so they shared a kiss.
“She was so nice within the film, and to kiss my spouse, my real-life spouse, in a film that I wrote and produced and gave glory to Him in,” McDonough gushed whereas on the “Nothing Left Unsaid” podcast, including that he couldn't image “something actually higher than that in my life in the case of my profession as a result of it's lastly a type of issues the place I made it, and I did it our approach.”
