Omar Epps Reveals the Last Time He Cried (Exclusive)

Omar Epps insists he isn't one to cry very easily.

But the actor, 50, does admit that "the strangest things can make me shed a tear," he tells PEOPLE in this week's issue.

"I can be watching a Nat Geo documentary about this cricket family, and something happens to one of them, and I’ll wonder, 'Is this what getting older is about? Why am I crying for Fred the cricket?'"

Epps, who just released his second novel, Nubia: The Reckoning, sat down with the magazine for One Last Thing:

Last time I danced: My wife [singer Keisha Spivey] and I were at an event, and she was looking great, so I had to take her hand and cut a rug. I’m more of a two-step vibe guy.

Last moment of self-care: I’m actually planning a massage in the next couple of weeks. I need someone to step on my back and do the whole deal. I try to get one twice a month.

Last honey-do chore: Something happened to our kitchen sink, so I ordered a whole new one and then put it in. Now every time someone uses it, I kind of have this really cocky smile.

Last fashion disaster: I saw this photo where I was 14 or 15 and had on some Hammer-type pants with the club shoes, a gaucho shirt with my African beads and some specs. Maybe I thought I was being cool.

Nubia: The Reckoning is now available wherever books are sold.

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