Don't expect Kevin Hart to play a gay character anytime soon. In an interview with the hosts of The Breakfast Club on New York's Power 105.1, the Wedding Ringer funnyman talked about the role that got away - Alpa Chino in 2008's Tropic Thunder. Hart explained that he passed on the role because the character was gay. (The part went to Brandon T. Jackson.) In an early draft of the script, Hart said the character was flamboyant. "The dude, he was doing a lot of stuff in the draft that I read," he told the radio station. "It was real flagrant.
- 1/17/2015
- by Steve Helling, @stevehelling
- PEOPLE.com
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