The Sopranos star Drea de Matteo has claimed that she is considered an “outcast” by Hollywood due to her outspoken support for Donald Trump.
Nodding to a famous plotline involving her character Adriana La Cerva, she joked: “They’re going to take me out into the woods and shoot me for not endorsing Biden.”
The 52-year-old actor, who also starred in Friends, Sons of Anarchy and Desperate Housewives, was asked by host Jesse Watters on Fox News whether there are “quiet” Trump voters in Hollywood.
“I think there is a lot of them,” she replied.
Watters had begun the interview by playing a montage of footage illustrating celebrity support for President Joe Biden, including a star-studded recent fundraiser in Los Angeles that attracted George Clooney, Julia Roberts and Barack Obama and raised $30m. Watters also showed clips of Robert De Niro clashing with Trump supporters outside the Manhattan courtroom that hosted Trump’s hush money trial.
In response, de Matteo said: “That was a hard intro to watch. I’m sorry. It’s the Italian, man. We’re talking about [Anthony] Fauci, we’re talking about De Niro. I am mortified right now by my people. I don’t understand what we’re doing here…Yes, there are a lot of quiet Trump supporters. 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.”
She added that she had always felt like an outsider in the entertainment business, saying: “I don’t really maneuver inside that industry. I never have. First of all, Sopranos, we were the outcast, 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 had previously said that she had been dropped by her agent for her stance on vaccinations and had been forced to find alternative means of income.
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