“Shazam!” star Zachary Levi says he’s been blacklisted by people in Hollywood who no longer want to work with him because he publicly supported President Trump in the last election.
But he knew this was going to be the case when he came out in support of Trump and did it anyway.
Here’s more from the New York Post:
Zachary Levi considers himself a Hollywood outsider because of his political beliefs.
The “Shazam!” star says there are people who don’t want to work with him after he publicly endorsed President Donald Trump.
“I know that there are people that would prefer not to work with me now because of my opinions. My team has let me know,” he said during an interview with Variety.
“They haven’t given me any specific names, but there are people who prefer not to work with me at this time. And it’s unfortunate. I knew that was probably going to happen. I didn’t make this decision blindly or casually.”
Prior to the 2024 presidential election, Levi faced backlash for publicly endorsing President Trump.
He explained that he does, however, still have allies in the industry.
“While there are some people who might prefer not to work with me anymore, there’s a lot of people on that side of the political spectrum who are even more inclined to hire me and to want to do business with me because ‘I need some people who voted another way.’
“They see that what I did was at great risk. And they were like, ‘You know what? I give you a lot of props for that because that’s not an easy thing to do.’ And I go, ‘I appreciate that,’” he said.
“I was not a fan of Trump’s Trumpiness. I didn’t like a lot of these personal things, the ways that he carries himself a lot of the time. I understand people’s aversion,” he told the outlet.
“Do I think the whole package is somehow perfect? No. In fact, most people who voted for Donald Trump recognize a lot of the imperfections in all of it. Nobody was saying, ‘This is the Orange Messiah.’”
Levi dished to Variety that a lot of people in Hollywood “secretly” voted for Trump in his last presidential run.
“I know it to be true because I’ve gotten messages from lots of people who I won’t name but who were very grateful to me for taking the stand that I took. And also they would tell me, ‘I want to do that, but I’m so afraid.’
“And I would tell them, ‘Listen, you’re on your journey. I’m on my journey. You’ve got to keep trusting God. And if you feel compelled to step out in that way, then do it boldly and know that you’re going to be OK. And if you don’t feel that conviction yet, then don’t. It’s all good,’” he said.