Being part of Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist introduced Terrence Howard with the prospect to relive the previous in additional methods than one.
As PEOPLE joined different reporters on the Peacock drama’s set in Might, Howard spoke with the press about his expertise engaged on the Nineteen Seventies set present — and in addition attending to re-team up along with his former Empire costar, Taraji P. Henson.
Howard, 55, and Henson, 53, notably costarred as Lucious Lyon and Loretha “Cookie” Lyon on Fox’s Empire from 2015 to 2020. The pair’s intensive joint credit score historical past additionally consists of Hustle & Movement, 4 Brothers and Time period Life.
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Talking about engaged on the identical undertaking as the man Academy Award nominee, Howard advised reporters that “it was nice, as a result of we do not have that a lot interplay.”
“Simply figuring out the synchronicities related to us, along with her identify being TPH, my identify being TDH, we acquired our begin with [director] John Singleton,” he defined. “We have been connected to so many issues that had this starlight celestial occasion sort of enchantment to it.”
“I believe we should’ve owned one another one thing from a earlier lifetime,” he added.
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Of their new undertaking for Peacock, primarily based on real-life occasions involving an armed theft that occurred in the course of the evening of Muhammad Ali’s 1970 comeback match, Howard performs Richard “Cadillac Richie” Wheeler.
“The best half is Lao Tzu, a Chinese language thinker, he mentioned nobody does a single factor for a single motive. You’d assume that the issues that Caddie is doing is out of self-motivated greed or self-centered egotism, however while you discover out why quite a lot of his actions are going down, then you definitely start to grasp and every individual will be capable of relate to him,” he advised the press what he is loved about diving into the character.
“Everybody has some deep-seated motive for all the things that they do, be it proper or be it flawed,” he added. “Discovering that about Cadillac was an essential a part of the journey as a result of as soon as I noticed what his motivation was, it knowledgeable me of the actions he would take. I am being cheeky slightly bit, as a result of I do not need to give something away.”
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Battle Evening: The Million Greenback Heist is now streaming on Peacock.
