“Sopranos” actress Drea de Matteo had words of condemnation for some of her Hollywood peers turned political activists, including Meryl Streep and George Clooney.
“I’m still a super liberal so I feel like it’s time for us all to come together but a lot of people on the Left are afraid … George Clooney, Meryl Streep, all of these huge celebrities endorsing war, supporting Dick Cheney,” the actress said during a Wednesday appearance on Fox Business.
“I don’t understand the inversion and how people have flipped unless they’re ‘under the gun’ so to speak … I find it hard to believe that people like George Clooney or Meryl Streep don’t actually know what’s going on. Maybe they should use their bank accounts to support what’s happening in the world right now,” she added.
The 52-year-old went on to rail against the current state of the entertainment industry.
“I think that Hollywood is meaningless,” she said. “The American Dream is on hold. I feel like Hollywood is dead. The music industry is dead … There’s no … artistic movement speaking out about this … You don’t see fine art. There’s usually protest art about wars and censorship. We’re stagnant right now.”
“I find it interesting to see these celebrities that are endorsing a situation that is the antithesis of what they once stood for as celebrities sort of and freedom of everything,” de Matteo said. “Speech, art, integrity. I question their integrity right now.”
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This isn’t the first time the actress spoke out against celebrities and their political involvement. She spoke with The Daily Wire about Hollywood stars making political endorsements and why she’s opposed.
“In the past, I understood the value,” she said during an interview earlier this month. “There was a rock and roll aspect to it, you know, you had all these musicians, there was a celebration of the country. I know now that there is no celebration of this country, and there’s no patriotism.”
“I feel like a lot of these celebrities are either tone deaf, and they don’t know what’s going on,” de Matteo said. She added that most “well-intentioned liberals” would “abandon ship” if they knew what was really going on.
“It feels sad to see how misinformed [celebrities] are,” she says. “If they’re not misinformed, then it makes me question their integrity as a human being and why they would want to hurt people on that level,” de Matteo said of Hollywood stars endorsing Kamala Harris for president.
