Pro-Trump actor Dennis Quaid revealed this week that the left tried to “cancel” him for starring in the upcoming film “Reagan.”
Quaid, an avid Trump fan, offered up the admission while speaking with popular podcaster Joe Rogan about the way Hollywood warns conservatives to keep quiet, lest they be blackballed.
“One ideology dominates, especially in Hollywood,” Rogan said.
He went on to describe some of the censorship he witnessed during the height of his acting career back in the 1990s.
“One of the things I say that drove me crazy about Hollywood was there are people who had differing opinions about things, but they would never speak out because it could damage their career, and it really can,” he said. “They will f–king blackball you.”
(Video Credit: The Joe Rogan Experience)
Quaid concurred.
“They will,” he said. “There were a couple attempts to cancel me while we were making ‘Reagan.’ Kind of half-hearted, I guess. But it has become that, and it ain’t right.”
For example, he said, when he filmed a COVID PSA with Dr. Anthony Fauci in 2020, he was accused of having essentially endorsed then-President Donald Trump.
“It is being used by the cancel culture media that I was doing a campaign ad and endorsement of Donald Trump, and that I was paid handsomely for this by diverted CDC funds,” Quaid complained, calling the allegations fake.
During the discussion, Rogan and Quaid also took on big tech, with the “Reagan” star revealing that Facebook has been censoring his attempts to promote the film on the basis that the content of the ads “is an attempt to sway an election.”
This prompted Rogan to ask, “Do you think if you made a positive Obama movie, it would be ‘sway an election?'”
To which Quaid replied by pointing out that an Obama film was made in 2020, and that nobody had complained about it at the time.
“Just the act of banning or censoring that material – as you were talking about – is an attempt to sway an election,” the actor argued.
UNREAL: Facebook is censoring the promotion of the new film ‘Reagan’ by restricting their access to the “boost post” feature.
First, they censored Trump, and now they are censoring Reagan. Care to explain Facebook? pic.twitter.com/4Ds4QFwHGZ
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 15, 2024
That said, Quaid admitted that after he and the production team behind “Reagan” sent a letter to Facebook complaining about the censorship, FB reversed course, claiming it had made a “mistake.”
“Since then, Facebook has said they made a mistake,” the actor said. “They said that yesterday because we put out a letter to it in an article on Newsweek. And they said they made a mistake. It was – their automatic systems had detected it.”
Rogan didn’t seem convinced.
“Oh, how convenient,” he said, adding that “rogue” far-left Facebook employees may have been behind the “mistake.”
In a statement to Newsweek, Facebook said the following: “While there are no restrictions on this page that would prevent the admins from posting, we did identify a handful of ads from this account that were incorrectly rejected. This happened because our automated systems mistakenly determined that content about President Reagan required prior authorization in accordance with our policies for ads about Social Issues, Elections, or Politics. This was a mistake and the restriction on the ads has been lifted.”
Sure …
The Reagan movie is about the fight against communism. Why would Facebook censor the promotion of this film? Dennis Quaid, who plays Reagan, said this on Rogan. pic.twitter.com/M6ebWLkuGV
— Chad Prather (@WatchChad) August 16, 2024
Quaid also talked about FB’s “mistake” while speaking with Fox News’ Trace Gallagher on Wednesday.
“[This] happened several times actually,” he told the Fox News host. “I am baffled by it to tell you the truth, because it was banned, and they haven’t even seen the film. So, it seems like they don’t want other people to see the film either, I guess. But you know, we’ll set up a screening for them anytime, and they can see for themselves.”
Quaid last made headlines when he praised former President Donald Trump for holding a campaign rally in the South Bronx back in May.
Appearing on Fox News’ “Jesse Watters Primetime” after the rally, he expressed admiration and respect.
“I really admire Trump for going into the neighborhoods,” he said. “You know, people relate to that. They really do. If anything, all these events that have been conspiring against him have actually made him more human to people.”
“Donald Trump has been talking about cleaning house, which, you know, kind of making a clean sweep to start over. That doesn’t mean being a dictator. That just means that we started doing what the American people have asked us to do,” he added.
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V. Saxena is a staff writer for BizPac Review with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University.
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