Lenny Kravitz snubbed for film role

LENNY Kravitz says he missed out on a part in Big Little Lies because producers were wary of casting “the only black man on the show” as a villain.

The 54-year-old actor-and-singer has revealed he was “considered to play one of the husbands” in the violent HBO drama series, but the director Jean-Marc Vallée decided against it in the end to avoid backlash.

The Are You Gonna Go My Way hitmaker didn’t want to divulge whether he would have taken on the role of wife-beating Perry Wright, which went to Alexander Skarsgard in the end, Celeste’s (Nicole Kidman) husband.

Speaking to the BBC, Kravitz said: “And the word that came back to me was that, if I was the only black man on the show, they didn’t want me doing what it was that I would be doing. So that ended up not happening.”