Actor Neal McDonough says he lost a job because he refused to do a sex scene

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5. He's an actor.

It's ACTING, Neal, not an affair. More to the point, he's talking about kissing, not a nude sex scene. I could probably understand his unwillingness to participate in the latter, but the former is just silly.

We saw this in 1957 when Pat Boone refused to Kiss Shirley Jones in "April Love." Boone has since taken the position that he had nothing against kissing in general, or kissing Jones in particular, but hadn't known the kiss was part of the script, and hadn't asked his wife if she was OK with it. He later kissed other actresses in other films.

McDonough, whose work I enjoyed in "Band of Brothers" is definitely limiting his career options. It's his choice, but he shouldn't whine about it.