Popular American actor, Terrence Howard, has sent birthday shouts to first son, Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, and also revealed plans to visit Uganda soon.
“Gen MK, happy 48th birthday my friend. I’m so looking forward to coming down there and meeting you guys and being able to bring you a gift that will be an enduring and lasting gift,” the Empire TV show star said in a video.
Howard played James Rhodey Rhodes in the first Iron Man film. He has had roles in several other films including Winnie Mandela, Ray, Lackawanna Blues, Crash, Four Brothers, Big Momma’s House, Get Rich or Die Tryin’, Idlewild, Biker Boyz, August Rush, The Brave One, and Prisoners
On TV, he starred as the lead character Lucious Lyon in Empire, a drama series that centers on the fictional hip hop music and entertainment company Empire Entertainment, and the drama among the members of the founders’ family as they fight for control of it.
Lucious is a hip hop mogul, former drug dealer, and CEO of Empire Entertainment. Informed of his own imminent early death from a nervous system disease, Lucious is forced to choose, from amongst his progeny, a successor who will control his dynasty after his demise.
Beyond meeting Muhoozi, Terrence has had prior plans of visiting Uganda as part of a government project to have different Hollywood stars to come to Uganda to establish collaborations with Ugandan filmmakers.
In part, the project will facilitate development of the local film industry but also promote brand Uganda through exposing these American stars to the culture and influencing them to tell the Ugandan story.
In February of this year, the President’s Office through its Trade and Investment Department began the campaign to engage different American film actors, producers, directors, writers, and marketers, who later promised to come to Uganda this year.
Among these was Terrence Howard.
Others were Cuba Gooding Jr, Robyn Lattaker- Johnson, Ava Hall and HemDee Kiwanuka a US-based Ugandan actor and producer.
At the time, Howard said he is fascinated about coming to Africa to connect with his motherland and share knowledge with the entertainment industry in Uganda.
He expressed interest in working with Uganda’s innovators and partnering with the Ministry of Science, Technology and innovations to push through his passion.
Omari Morocco, another American actor who also featured in Empire has had several trips to Uganda both for pleasure and film-related projects.
On his most recent visit few months ago, he held a training workshop for filmmakers and also visited the set for Sanyu drama series.
