From Michelle Williams’ impassioned acceptance speech to the new trailer for Netflix’s upcoming Breaking Bad movie El Camino, the 2019 Emmy Awards telecast delivered the goods on Sunday. Yet before the official program even began, Empire actor Terrence Howard delivered one of the most mind-boggling red carpet interviews of the evening. Between claiming he “made some discoveries in my own personal life with the science that, you know, Pythagoras was looking for” and “[could] prove that gravity is only an effect and not a force,” Howard was on a roll.
This wasn’t the first time that the highest-paid actor in 2008’s Iron Man had said something wild about math and physics. Back in 2015, he infamously claimed in a Rolling Stone profile that one times one equals two. Two years after that particular gem (or crystal?) went viral, Howard restirred the pot with a “proof” of this idea on Twitter.
This is the proof to the World of Science and Mathematics that 1×1=2.#mathematics #worldofscience @rollingstone #proof pic.twitter.com/7uOMrNshia
— Terrence D Howard (@terrencehoward) November 1, 2017
Even so, it’s his many wild claims from Sunday’s Emmys red carpet interview that caught everyone’s attention. Seriously, it seems no one can stop talking or thinking about one of the wildest two minutes in awards show banter history.
I'm not sure whether he just announced himself as the New Pythagoras or pitched Ad Astra 2. (Perhaps both, maybe, because this is A LOT.) https://t.co/Cn37PjoUMB
— Brian Truitt (@briantruitt) September 23, 2019
What. https://t.co/1bXpcqMpzU
— @alishagrauso.bsky.social (@AlishaGrauso) September 23, 2019
https://twitter.com/TopherGrace/status/1176163002329886720
PLEASE STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND WATCH THIS
a) T Howard is effing with them
b) he's on some stuff
c) he's a cult leader
d) THERE ARE NO STRAIGHT LINES
e) SOMETHING SOMETHING SATURN
f) "walking on water for tips" https://t.co/gOpQACw0iV— Jason McIntyre (@jasonrmcintyre) September 23, 2019
https://twitter.com/marcbernardin/status/1176219819516973056
I can't wait for the next episode of this show. https://t.co/KZq7qzvRmV
— Ahmad Crespo Childress (@AhmadChildress) September 23, 2019
Me: Terrance what did you think of the UCLA/Wazzu game
Terrance: https://t.co/gPCSN6NkQU
— BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL (@edsbs) September 23, 2019
I've been working in animation for years and I'm just now learning there are no straight lines. Thanks Terrence Howard.
— Da7e Gonzales (@Da7e) September 23, 2019
Terrence Howard’s Wikipedia page is a ride. pic.twitter.com/sc17FVSov9
— Nick de Semlyen (@NickdeSemlyen) September 23, 2019
Hopefully, one of the many executives in attendance at the Emmys has seen this segment and optioned the rights to its television adaptation. It’d be an easy way to get invited back to the awards show in one or two years’ time.