Studio sidelines Clint Eastwood swan song 'Juror #2'



Courage is contagious.

Dennis Quaid hit the publicity trail for “Reagan” a few months back, never hiding the fact that he supports Donald Trump in the November election. It’s the kind of statement that can stop a career cold, even when the star in question has decades of audience goodwill — as Quaid has.

Now it’s Zachary Levi’s turn.

The “Chuck” and “Shazam!” star just threw his support behind Trump at a Reclaim America tour. He did so with grace and patience, making sure not to attack or alienate those who disagree with his presidential choice.

Call him the anti-De Niro.

Will he pay a price for his decision? Perhaps. He noted that possibility in his comments. If enough Hollywood Trump supporters stand up, there’ll be too many to cancel.

Pop punk's potty mouth

Was it something Billie Joe Armstrong said?

The Green Day lead singer is in hot water for dissing Sin City from a concert stage.

“We don’t take [expletive] from people like [expletive] John Fisher. ... I hate Las Vegas. It’s the worst [expletive] in America."

Did he not see the fountains of the Bellagio? C’mon!

Fisher owns the Oakland Athletics, the baseball franchise picking up stakes and moving to Vegas next season. That apparently got the attention of two Vegas radio stations, which pulled Green Day music from their lineup.

It’s either a silly radio stunt or a sign that the left’s snowflake sensibilities are spreading.

Either way, Green Day shouldn’t be too sore about it. The band indirectly supports censorship via its pro-Democrat posturing. Should the Harris-Walz ticket win come November, radio station bans will seem quaint by comparison.

Cringe watch

Elections have consequences. So do presidential endorsements. We’ve already seen Taylor Swift’s brand take a hit following her Kamala Harris embrace. Now we’re learning that Netflix got jolted after its CEO wrote a $7 million check to the Harris ticket.

Netflix subscribers left in droves after Reed Hastings’ move went public. The ensuing cancellations nearly tripled in the U.S. following the announcement.

Maybe Netflix can do some damage control by endorsing a “Tiger King” sequel? Joe Exotic is tan, rested, and ready ... assuming you can sneak cameras into his jail cell.

Forgot about Drea

If you’re gonna burn bridges, you might as well bring all the gasoline.

“Sopranos” alum Drea de Matteo is taking that message to heart. The veteran actress keeps trashing her Hollywood peers as part of an ongoing media tour.

Why? She has no new TV show or movie to promote. She’s just mad as hell, and she’s not gonna take it any more. She’s a former liberal who swallowed the whole red pill in recent months. That explains why she skewered celebrity culture during a no-holds-barred chat with Fox Business.

“I think the American dream is on hold. I feel like Hollywood is dead. The music industry is dead.”

“There’s no cultural, artistic movements speaking out about [modern life]. ... You don’t see fine art — there’s usually protest art about wars and censorship. And we’re stagnant right now.”

The anti-war arts movement is MIA, no doubt. The only rebellious art is coming from the conservative counterculture. Think Five Times August's Fauci-skewering “Sad Little Man” and Five for Fighting's poignant anti-Hamas ballad “OK (We Are Not OK)."

Warner Bros. skimps on Clint

Is this any way to treat a legend?

Clint Eastwood’s new film, “Juror #2,” has been shrouded in secrecy for some time. Now, finally, we have a trailer. Will the movie be released as part of an awards season push? By all appearances, no. World of Reel reports it's set for a limited release on Nov. 1 with no plans for an expansion.

Yet.

Eastwood, 94, has suggested that this will be the last film of his iconic career. His previous effort, 2021’s “Cry Macho,” proved underwhelming. And that’s being gracious.

“Juror #2” offers a solid cast (Nicholas Hoult, J.K. Simmons, Toni Collette, and Kiefer Sutherland) and a feisty premise. A juror in a murder trial realizes the critical role he played in the case before him and how his future could be tied to the verdict.

If anyone deserves to ride off into the cinematic sunset with one final winner, it’s Clint Eastwood.

'Sopranos' star Drea de Matteo says Hollywood will 'take me out into the woods and shoot me for not endorsing Biden'



Actress Drea de Matteo said there are many silent supporters of Donald Trump in Hollywood while also expressing disappointment in fellow Italians like Robert De Niro for their political activism.

In an interview with Fox News' Jesse Watters, the 52-year-old was asked about the presence of Trump voters in the liberal stronghold.

"Is there a quiet Trump voter out there in Hollywood?" Watters asked.

"I think there is a lot of them. I think there are a lot of — that was a hard intro to watch. I'm sorry," de Matteo said, responding to footage of a recent Joe Biden fundraiser.

De Matteo then condemned fellow Italians like actor Robert De Niro and former health official Dr. Anthony Fauci.

"It's the Italians, man. We're talking about Fauci, we're talking about De Niro. I am mortified right now by my people. I don't understand what we're doing here," she added.

'There are very few people that are willing to speak out.'

"There are a lot of quiet Trump supporters, there are a lot of [Robert F. Kennedy Jr.] supporters," she continued, per Mediaite. "I wonder how much these actors got paid to endorse Biden at this point. I am curious. I wonder if De Niro got paid a location fee because he traveled to the courtroom to do that."

De Matteo was referring to a recent appearance by De Niro outside the courthouse in New York City where Trump's case was tried, where he spoke poorly of the former president and had confrontations with Trump supporters.

Host Watters then asked the actress whether she was privy to any information about how celebrities get work-around deals in order to endorse political candidates, such as lining up movie roles or securing book deals.

"I don't really maneuver inside that industry. I never have," she claimed. She added that the cast of "The Sopranos" were considered outcasts in the television industry.

"Even though we were critically acclaimed, we still were outcasts. So I'm still an outcast; here I am. They're going to take me out into the woods and shoot me for not endorsing Biden," she added.

The actress was likely referring to her exit from the hit show, in which her character was shot in the woods after mob members found out she was working for the FBI.

"I do know that people are tired of it, and there are very few people that are willing to speak out," she said in a previous interview, according to Variety. "They probably will vote Republican, and that's people who would never normally, but people are afraid. This doesn't feel like a democracy any more.”

De Matteo was previously spotlighted in recent news stories after she opened an account on OnlyFans — a website typically viewed as a subscription service for pornography or other explicit material — because her house was going into foreclosure.

"Why did I join OnlyFans? When we launched, we had ... I'd say, a couple hundred bucks left in the bank, I'm not kidding," Complex reported the actress said. "My house was going into foreclosure. Did I do it out of desperation? F** yes, I did."

The Italian has also stated that she was forced to "switch careers and figure new things out" because her industry thinks she's "a savage” because she does not believe in COVID vaccine mandates.

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'Sopranos' star Drea de Matteo says Hollywood elites 'petrified' to voice any skepticism against President Joe Biden



"The Sopranos" actress Drea de Matteo said that Hollywood elites are "petrified" to voice any skepticism against President Joe Biden.

"I think the far left own Hollywood. I think we all know that. All we have to do is follow the money," de Matteo said during an appearance on "Varney & Co."

"I do know that people are tired of it, and there are very few people that are willing to speak out," the actress added. "They probably will vote Republican, and that's people who would never normally, but people are afraid. This doesn't feel like a democracy anymore."

De Matteo – best known for her role as Adriana La Cerva in "The Sopranos" – explained that she "was always very anonymous" when it came to politics. She even said she still considers herself to be a liberal on certain issues.

However, she felt the need to talk about "freedom."

"Then all of a sudden, I was speaking the truth about my situation, which led to more and more freedom talks, talking about freedom," de Matteo told host Stuart Varney. "A lot of people have been so focused on these social issues these days. And the social issues are what's tearing everybody apart. And I think we need to be focused on the global issue and what is really going on behind the facade. And I don't think a lot of my friends recognize that yet."

"I accidentally spoke out. I had no intentions of being this person on Fox News ever in my life," she continued.

De Matteo said many Hollywood actors are "petrified" to voice any criticisms of President Biden.

She said of Biden, "The man needs to take a rest. They need to stop using him as the poster child for their agenda. He's not here. It's like putting my mother out there. She has dementia. It's sad, it's not humane."

De Matteo accused the Biden administration of being divisive.

"I feel like the Biden administration was used to divide people. I think that the division in America is beyond — and I don't think that we know really where it's coming from," she declared. "I doubt that it's just an old man who doesn't even know he's reading half the time. I don't think he's making any of these executive decisions on social issues."

De Matteo said the Biden administration's focus on left-wing social issues was a distraction from issues that are monumental for everyday Americans.

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'Sopranos' star Drea de Matteo blasts Hollywood as 'cesspool,' says OnlyFans saved her after being blacklisted for refusing vaccine



"The Sopranos" star Drea de Matteo blasted Hollywood as a "cesspool" and said that she was blacklisted from the industry after refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine. The actress credited OnlyFans for helping her recover from nearly losing her house after financial ruin.

De Matteo, 52, told the Daily Mail in a recent interview, "I mean, that place [Hollywood] is a freaking cesspool."

"I'm not gonna lie. TV sucks," she added. "There's nothing great. 'Sopranos' opened the door for [me] 100 percent," said De Matteo — who starred as Adriana La Cerva in the massively popular HBO mob series between 1999 and 2006.

De Matteo recalled a recent meeting with "The Sopranos" showrunner David Chase and executive producers Terence Winter and Matthew Wiener.

"They were doing a panel and they basically were like, 'We don't even trust the audience anymore because it's all of this stuff that societies cram down people's throats,'" she said and added, "It's like, I don't even know that it's the audience. I think it's more the industry."

"The industry has just... everything that our generation has pushed for, whether it be better television, whether it be human rights, body sovereignty, all of these things, they took it and made an aberration out of it," de Matteo said of Hollywood. "And the same thing went for television. Television is so saturated. Streaming doesn't help anybody except for the big corporations."

De Matteo is bitter toward Hollywood after she was reportedly blacklisted from the industry after refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine.

After not being able to work as an actress in Hollywood for refusing to get vaccinated, de Matteo said that she fell on hard economic times.

"They put me into foreclosure and my house had flooded, so I was trying to sell the house quickly," she told the British outlet. "I wanted to try and sell it before they took it."

She added, "At the same time, I lost my mom, and my other mom, who has dementia, had run out of money for her caregiver. I didn't know which way was up."

In September, de Matteo said she had just $10 in her bank account.

Without the option of acting, de Matteo turned to OnlyFans to help bail her out of financial ruin.

"I did it, but I didn't want to do it," she explained. "I got a lot of heat for doing it and it went f***ing viral and people went nuts."

De Matteo said she and her boyfriend did a podcast on the subscription-based platform that typically caters to sexual content.

She admitted that some racy content did include her boyfriend rubbing her feet "because you have to add a little something for OnlyFans in there."

De Matteo previously told Fox News, "I figured, ‘OK, so everybody’s in their underwear and being sexy on Instagram and I don’t do that, but I can do that and get paid for it.’ … I don’t know why I didn’t think of this sooner."

A subscription to de Matteo's OnlyFans page costs $15 a month.

De Matteo said, "OnlyFans saved my life, 100 percent. I can't believe I'm saying that, but it really did save us."

The "Sopranos" actress said she was able to get her home out of foreclosure within "five minutes" of starting her OnlyFans account because of subscriptions.

Speaking about criticism of joining the website known for risque adult content, de Matteo proclaimed, "I know some people have said some nasty things about me having joined OnlyFans. But, you know, the way we see it in this house is mommy's a warrior, not accepting defeat."

When asked if she would ever return to Hollywood, de Matteo said, "It would have to really be something that was meaningful to me."

She added, "I'd rather bet on myself than bet on the man at this point."

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