14 DAY TRIAL // Rolling Stone has released the full interview with Terrence Howard, running in the magazine’s latest issue and meant to promote the upcoming season of Fox’s hit show “Empire.” It absolutely puts to shame all interviews that Will Smith’s youngest son Jaden Smith could ever give, and that’s saying a lot, because Jaden already has a solid reputation for saying the weirdest and most nonsensical things ever.
In between lashing out (again) at Robert Downey Jr. for back-stabbing him and cheating him out of an estimated $100 million (€88.7 million) paycheck when he stood by and watched him being replaced in the “Iron Man” franchise after the original movie, Howard also boasts about inventing a new math theory he calls Terryology.
Modesty isn’t his strongest suit, that much becomes very clear by the end of the interview.
Terryology or how 1 times 1 equals 2
Terrence Howard has a reputation for being one of the most difficult actors in Hollywood, for which reason his career has never become what it had shown promise of becoming: he should have been the “next Denzel,” but his temper and inflexibility began costing him jobs even before he got started properly.
Howard is also known for being a very violent and unpredictable man, both in his interactions with strangers and with his loved ones. He’s been married 3 times and 2 of these women have accused him of beating them up. The third one, Mira Pak, was actually with him in Chicago during the Rolling Stone interview, and agreed to play the happy married wife role even though she had already filed for divorce at the time the chat took place.
But Howard is no longer fussing over negative stuff like that. He’s convinced he’s on his way to changing the world because, during the 4 years he was away from Hollywood (before “Empire”), he came up with the revolutionary idea that 1 times 1 doesn’t equal 1, but 2.
“I figured it out. If Pythagoras was here to see it, he would lose his mind. Einstein, too! Tesla!” he tells the reporter. “This is the last century that our children will ever have been taught that one times one is one. They won't have to grow up in ignorance. Twenty years from now, they'll know that one times one equals two. We're about to show a new truth. The true universal math.”
Terrence Howard, the misunderstood artist
He says he has actual, concrete proof of his theory and he gladly shows it off to the Rolling Stone reporter: pieces of sculpture / art he creates with Pak, blending all kinds of materials in all kinds of shapes. He says they “make up the motion of the universe,” but he can’t or won’t explain their meaning or how he came up with the idea for them.
To the reporter, they make no sense, but Howard is positive that they will change the world. He’s even got a patent out for them and he’s thrilled that this will be his legacy.
In fact, he says, once the changing of the world is complete, he plans to retire from acting. He will stay on with “Empire” until it plays out, and hopefully he will make enough money to be able to live the rest of his life in isolation.
With all his conviction that Terryology will bring the world out of the state of “ignorance” it’s been in for so long, he knows that not all revolutionary ideas can pay the bills.