Terrence Howard says that as a young actor he was once blacklisted by entertainment legend Bill Cosby.

The thirty-nine year old Oscar-nominated star says he was so angry after being cut from a part on the then-popular The Cosby Show that he confronted Bill Cosby and was left out of work for four years.

“I was 19 and had just moved to New York from Cleveland, I got on ‘The Cosby Show’ on my second audition ever….I told him, ‘I’m a man just like you.’ He didn’t like it, and the casting agent never took my calls again.”