Whoopi Goldberg is calling bullshit over “Shazam” star Zachary Levi‘s claim that “Hollywood is a very, very liberal town” and thus his recent endorsement of Donald Trump for president may “very well constitute career suicide.” Levi made the claim during a rally in which he championed Trump’s campaign and told attendees that we’re “going to make America great again.”
“So, okay. That’s not necessarily true,” Goldberg said about Hollywood being dominated by liberals (via Entertainment Weekly). “From the beginning of Hollywood, it’s always been a very right-leaning town, but I know you don’t know much about the Hollywood history, so let me school you.”
Goldberg told Levi that “we’re a mixed bunch” and “sometimes it seems like there’s more Democrats and sometimes it seems like there’s more Republicans, but the truth of the matter is very few people seem to bite it because they’re Republican,” citing the ongoing careers of outspoken conservatives and “working” Republican actors like Jon Voight and Dennis Quaid. Goldberg went to say that Levi’s claim is “more B.S., and it’s unnecessary.”
Levi endorsed Trump at a rally in Michigan on Sept. 28 before introducing former presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard to the stage. The “Shazam!” actor was at the “Team Trump’s Reclaim America Tour” event to moderate a conversation with Kennedy and Gabbard.
“We’re here to make sure that we are going to take back this country. We are going to make it great again. We are going to make it healthy again,” Levi said on stage. “And so, I stand with Bobby, and I stand with Tulsi, and I stand with everyone else who is standing with President Trump. Because I do believe, of the two choices that we have, and we only have two, Donald Trump, President Trump is the man that can get us there. And he’s gonna get us there because he’s gonna have the backing and the support and the wisdom and the knowledge and the fight that exists in Robert Kennedy Jr. and former representative Tulsi Gabbard.”
Levi was originally backing Kennedy for president, but he put his support behind Trump after Kennedy dropped out of the race.
“For a long time, I was like, ‘Man, I really want to find a politician that represents all of the things that I want and I want to see in a presidential candidate.’ And this year, I found Bobby Kennedy, and I thought, ‘Man, this guy is it. He’s the real deal.’ And in a perfect world, whatever that would look like, perhaps I would have voted for Bobby,” Levi said at the Michigan rally. “But we don’t live in a perfect world. In fact, we live in a very broken one, we live in a country that has been hijacked by a lot of people who want to take this place way off the cliff. And we want to stop that, right?”
Levi most recently appeared in Sony’s family film “Harold and the Purple Crayon,” which opened in theaters in August.
From Variety US