“Reacher” star Alan Ritchson got fired up about politics on the latest episode of Josh Horowitz’s “Happy Sad Confused” podcast, spouting off about the Epstein files and the “fucking rapists” in politics.
“The fucking Epstein files! God damn it! Where are they? It’s a fucking law, bitch. Show it, you fucking pedophiles,” Ritchson said. “I shouldn’t say ‘fuck’ because I’m a Christian, and people are gonna go, ‘How can he say fuck and he’s a Christian?’ Because that is something that should make you want to say ‘fuck.’”
In classic Jack Reacher fashion, Ritchson continued: “This is my fucking politics, dude: I would fucking railroad these fuckers. I would get those Epstein files out in two seconds. Fucking move out of the way. Like, get out of there. I don’t care what room they’re in. Bitch, move. Give me the fucking manila envelope. I will get you the Epstein files. Don’t you want to see what’s in there so that we can hold people accountable? These fucking rapists! We’re just cool with it?”
Without naming names, the hulking action star seemed to turn his attention to a politician with quite a lot of power. “That bitch has the keys to the nuclear. He’s, like, all up into 13-year-olds. Like, dude, what? Go to jail. Go to jail.”
Ritchson prefaced the rant by joking that his publicist is somewhere “biting her nails” and saying he is “missing” the gene that makes some actors “afraid to speak their mind.” “Everybody is scared around me for what I’m going to say,” Ritchson said, adding that he is not a “loose cannon,” he’s just “saying the shit that everybody should say if they give a shit about humanity.”
Ritchson also talked about his friendship with fellow action star and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who he said “really wanted” Ritchson to get into politics. He hasn’t exactly ruled it out but said he isn’t yet ready to retire from acting.
“There’s going to come a time where maybe I feel like I’m either well resourced enough or visible enough to really make an impact in many people’s lives,” Ritchson said. “I care deeply about the outliers, the maligned people who have very difficult lives, people who are forgotten and overlooked and unwanted and unloved. I care deeply about making the world more fair and free for those people.”
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