The actor says they are being discriminated against and is very vocal about it.

There is a B+ list actor who is an absolute pain to work with and no one enjoys the experience.

The problem producers are having is whenever the actor doesn’t get a role, the actor says they are being discriminated against and is very vocal about it.

Terrence Howard

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During the first season of Fox’s hit drama “Empire” last winter, Lucious Lyon’s identity as anti-hero was firmly cemented: The former drug dealer murdered an old pal, cheated on his fiancée, gay-bashed one of his sons, hid information that could sabotage his company’s IPO and was revealed to have fathered a child by a son’s ex-girlfriend — while she was still dating the son. – 2015

The man who plays the dastardly Lucious, Terrence Howard, had no trouble identifying with the character. In a story published this past week, he told Rolling Stone: “Since they see me as a bad guy, I’m gonna play a bad guy.”

Indeed, Howard, 46, has a history of violence that nearly rivals that of Lucious. Since 2000, the actor’s rap sheet has included multiple charges of assault.

Those cases have come back to light over the past month, as Howard was in court seeking to overturn a settlement in his 2013 divorce from second wife Michelle Ghent, who has alleged on multiple occasions that he assaulted her.

As one TV executive tells The Post: “It’s an industry joke that he collects more assault raps than acting accolades.”

Page Six reported in August that the incarceration of Howard’s “Empire” character has given the show’s producers an excuse to minimize his screen time when the show returns Wednesday.

Fox representatives say rumors that Howard’s role will be scaled back are “patently untrue,” and network co-CEO and chairman Dana Walden has been effusive in her support of the controversial star. “Our experience with Terrence has been excellent,” she says.

But other Hollywood insiders who have worked with Howard tell a different story.

“Terrence has this reputation for being a hothead,” a TV exec says.

“I don’t think ‘anger issues’ quite covers it,” a former associate of Howard’s tells The Post. “Terrence has to be in control of everything, all the time. When he doesn’t get his way, he loses his s  – –  t very easily. – Source