Terrence Howard | Full Address and Q&A | Oxford Union

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Terrence Howard is an American actor and singer. Having his first major roles in the 1995 films Dead Presidents and Mr. Holland's Opus, Howard broke into the mainstream with a succession of television and cinema roles between 2004 and 2006.

He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Hustle & Flow. Howard has had prominent roles in many other movies including Winnie, Ray, Lackawanna Blues, Crash, Four Brothers, Get Rich or Die Tryin', Idlewild, August Rush, The Brave One and Prisoners.

Howard played James Rhodes in the first Iron Man and its video game adaptation, but he was replaced by Don Cheadle for the future films.

He currently stars as the lead character Lucious Lyon in the television series Empire. His debut album, Shine Through It, was released in September 2008.

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[shogunai]

Whoever managed to bring this man to the Oxford Union is the greatest living troll and should be protected at all costs.

[Bittennails-pldi]

Who's here also after the JRE podcast?

[HCheatNcool]

Could you imagine being a junior at Oxford and just saying “yeah I guess I’ll go listen to that actor speaking at that seminar” and you walk into this.

[spacenerd]

As a former math teacher, this hurts so much 🤦

[dlorusso]

Today i found out, that im over qualified to speak at oxford

[cgab]

My wave conjugations:

I wave
you wave
he waves
we wave
you wave
they wave

[BlurryBigfoot]

I'm blown away that Oxford allowed this to happen.

[young_raymond]

I am not the least bit surprised that he is an actor. He is a master of bullshitting his way through a monologue. The confidence that he speaks with almost makes it look like he actually knows what he’s talking about. The way he’s memorized irrational numbers to 9 decimal places, the way he puts random words together so seamlessly (wave conjugations kills me every time). This is an ACTOR in his element. His job isn’t to be right, it’s to be compelling.

[gregpastic]

We should all be thankful that people like Terence are not the ones building our bridges, skyscrapers, aircraft...

[zeller]

Next week at Oxford..the guy shouting at me at the bus stop

[thestuttererx]

His gambit of using stories to deflect strong arguments is top-notch

[ebiased]

Unable to set up a projector but has found the answer to the universe. Genius!

[bisusdadinle]

To those asking how something like this was allowed in Oxford; People thought it was a speech about performance arts, and this was a successful actor who could answer students' questions. That's why most of the questions are like that.

The fact that he hijacked it to turn it into a speech about his schizophrenic ramblings is in fact genius in its own right 😅

[evolve]

“Now take out your calculator. Type 5318008. Now turn your calculator upside down.” Crowd applauds.

[jaythemachine]

This is who I’m going to tell my kids NEIL DEGRASSI TYSON is 🤣

[jckyhn]

Such conviction. It's breathtaking.

[engageintellect]

A moment of silence to all those who waited 6 years to watch this. We have been waiting for you.

[BenjaminOldenburg]

He’s the human version of early AI. Sound presentation, absolute hallucination.

[weknowthetruth]

I like to come back and see if I have started losing my mind if this starts to make sense someday I know it has started ..

[Sponey]

FFS why have i only discovered this now?? i could’ve binge watched this entire fuckery throughout 2020!