re: American History X screenwriter: Hollywood is broke and actor's politics are killing us

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Hollywood talking is why I might watch One Battle After Another, while looking at my phone on Max instead of seeing it in theaters.

Hollywood being chill and shutting up is why I went and saw Mercy, Ready or Not 2, and Project Hail Mary in theaters

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What did Leo or Chase Infinity or Benicio or Sean Penn or Regina Hall say about politics in the lead up to One Battle's release that kept you from seeing it in theaters? Only one of them is publicly politically active, but he pretty famously doesn't give interviews about it. Youtubers and posters here making complaintsabout the politics in the film they hadn't yet seen is not actors talking about politics. Did Penn's post in Ukraine the day after the Oscars keep you from going to see it in theaters, 4 months after it was out of theaters?


And, again, you guys are defending the rant of a screenwriter who uses Bruce Springsteen as a prominent example of an "actor" who won't shut up about politics.

This was a rant designed to be aggregated and then passed around mindlessly to people who agree with the sentiment that actors should stop talking in the interviews they're forced by the studios to participate in. Good job. You guys agree with the sentiment, which means that the actual content and context of the rant don't matter to you, regardless of how idiotic it is.

If the studios were refusing to green light movies because actors keep giving answers to the questions they are asked in interviews, which is what this dude is alleging, the studios would stop forcing them to participate in interviews.