“When I tell people I’m a Christian and a conservative, it’s like being a double leper in Hollywood,” Sorbo told Kirk Cameron on Cameron’s latest episode of TAKEAWAYS. “Being conservative is enough, but being a Christian seems to be even a more bad thing to be in Hollywood, it’s very strange to me.”
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It isn’t being a Christian that gets you shunned, most people in your country are Christian. It isn’t being a conservative that gets you shunned, that’s a little under half the people in your country and probably most of the people making a profit off Hollywood.
It’s being a ham-fisted, faux-philosophical, intellectual fraud and talentless hack of a writer who openly insults others and doesn’t care to give their thoughts the same respect he demands be shown for his own that gets you shunned and your determination to make the failure of your ham-fisted author tracts to be at all deep or entertaining into the fault of those around you imagining that they’re conspiring against your vision - among many other conspiracy theories of varied scope and derangement - and your determination to go on the offensive with that claim no matter how little basis it has that makes you a leper.
I honestly can’t imagine a lot of people at big movie production companies or whatever thinking to themselves something like “you know, I’d really like to hire that guy who was most famous for starring as Hercules in a 90s TV series, but fuck him because he’s a Christian!” I don’t know, was that even any good? The only memory I have of it is seeing some commercials for it around that time. And I guess "Xena: Warrior Princess”, which I think seems to be more well-known these days, was a spinoff of it.
<@TheKingOfRhye > #127999
Xena was a Hercules spin-off, and yes, it was better. Lucy Lawless had an on-screen personality, while Sorbo just phoned it in.
A Conservative Christian is Awesome because:
1- He's the second man on the Moon
2- Because Neil Armstrong elected to replace the LEM 'Eagle's malfunctioning clock with his own watch to use as official mission chronometer, his Omega Speedmaster is the first timepiece on the Moon
3- He meets Optimus Prime
4- ?????
5- Unlike Dr. Buzz Aldrin what will you ever become, Kevin Sorearse...?!
Even Gen. Chuck Yeager was in "The Right Stuff".
No Kevin, it is not because you are Christian, or because you are a conservative.
It is because you are an absolute piece of shit.
Well, there’s John Wayne who had no issue working in cinema, and I bet there’s a lot of actors and directors supporting at least pro-business position and either being Blue Dog Democrats or Moderate Republicans on account of such factors.
Yeah, Tom Hanks. He was raised Catholic and Mormon. He converted to the Greek Orthodox Church before marrying Rita Wilson, and they still attend church. So, it’s not ‘being a christain’ that gets you that treatment.
Clint Eastwood is pretty fucking conservative and successful in Hollywood.
Weird.
Maybe it’s not your labels?
<@Sasha > #128011
Ironically I think that air of detachment actually lent to the authenticity of the portrayal of a demi-god capable of feats of strength impossible to mere humans wandering mortal lands doing things that inspire legend with relatively little effort and saw it as an element that gave the character a sense of emotional isolation. Exalted by others, but forever separate and emotionally isolated. A being that could not be related to and in its quiet way quite tragic. Then it turns out that whole attitude of gazing down from his sense of superiority wasn’t really an act but the trying to empathize with those who are “beneath” him part was.
Michael Hurst as Iolaus brought a bit more life to the show. He was no Joxer the Mighty, but I sure as hell didn’t forget him. And his career, though less visible, isn’t quite the shitshow of Sorbo.
Confused?
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