“Either You Work For Disney Or You WANT To” - Terrence Howard EXPOSES Disney’s Hollywood POWER Grip
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🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Terrence Howard explains why he believes suing Fox and Disney effectively blacklisted him from major Hollywood studios. In this candid talk with Patrick Bet-David, he discusses integrity in the industry, why actors “don’t talk,” and why he’s now focused more on science and personal healing.
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| 0:00.0 | Do you think for you, like last time when you and I spoke, I think we were in Arkansas at the same time. Mm-hmm. This was, nine months ago, eight months ago. Yeah, I was doing Turnbuckle, a film, Turnbuckle, not even nine months ago. It was maybe November or October. You're right. You're right. It was probably November when we spoke. And are you still getting the knock of bigger projects coming your way? Oh, no. after I sued |
| 0:22.6 | Fox and Disney, |
| 0:24.3 | you go getting the knock of bigger projects coming your way? |
| 0:21.0 | Oh, no. |
| 0:21.5 | After I sued Fox and Disney, you're going to the blacklist. |
| 0:25.9 | Permanent. |
| 0:26.9 | You, until there's a new change of everybody inside of there. |
| 0:31.4 | So you're no longer on their main list of calling because you've broken the cardinal rule, |
| 0:38.8 | which is you never talk, you know, even if you're being screwed over, you'd never talk. |
| 0:45.1 | You know, you're supposed to keep that quiet and keep working as a good slave. |
| 0:50.4 | And I didn't do that. |
| 0:51.7 | I thought about, you know, some injustices that I felt was happening with me. |
| 0:57.8 | And you realize that the entire system is rigged because they carry so much power. |
| 1:04.6 | And if you, and everybody, either you work for Disney or you want to work for Disney in this business. |
| 1:10.7 | Why? |
| 1:12.0 | Because Disney. |
| 1:13.6 | They own all the big brand Star Wars and everything. |
| 1:17.7 | Yep. |
| 1:18.0 | So how are you going to hire somebody that Disney is angry at as a producer? |
| 1:23.6 | And so you still stay within the independent realm and you're building that stuff. |
| 1:28.3 | It goes all the way up to Bob Iger or so like a Kennedy type of it? |
| 1:31.3 | It goes all the way up to Dana Walden to all of them. |
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