Hollywood star Zachary Levi spoke with Daily Wire podcast host Matt Walsh about coming out in support of President Donald Trump, as well as the current state of Hollywood.
Speaking on “The Matt Walsh Show” podcast, the 44-year-old actor said he knew he wanted to be an actor from a very young age because he wanted to make “people feel good.” And as he got older, that same platform led him to feeling the need to “come out of the political closet” to support Trump in the election, despite the fear of being canceled.
“It was, I think overwhelmingly, it was more positive,” Levi said. “This isn’t just red versus blue, because the reality is there’s people on the red and blue that actually are decent human beings that actually do want a better world. And there’s people on the red and blue who are not decent people who are absolute swamp monsters.”
“And so because of that, I haven’t really found any presidential candidate to be all that inspiring in all of my adult life,” he added. “I was intrigued by Trump in that he wasn’t a career politician, but I had enough of him and his brashness and kind of bullishness and, you know, the things that most people take umbrage with. But it certainly wasn’t Hillary [Clinton], [Joe] Biden, or Kamala [Harris].”
Levi admitted that if the Democratic Party had let Robert F. Kennedy Jr. run, he would’ve voted for a Democrat, but when RFK Jr. was kept off the ticket, he turned his support to Trump, whom Kennedy backed.
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“And then, you know, Trump is nearly killed. And there, I think, all of us … in every party, on every level, every end of the spectrum, that was a massive, massive moment for Trump, particularly within that massive moment. I, and many others like me, saw this incredible, I think, God-inspired shift,” the actor said. “I think that was a miracle that Donald Trump lived.”
“But it brought a humility to Donald Trump that I don’t think existed in him before, at least not on that level,” he added. “And that’s something I need in a leader. … Because the alternative to me was not an option in the way that I know a lot of people on the other side felt the same way about Donald Trump.”
Levi said that’s why it didn’t matter what happened to his career, because “if I save my career, but Kamala gets into office and we continue down this death spiral to the bottom that I fully believe that we were on … I was like, I can’t. God did not build me to do that. God built me to fight.”
The “Chuck” star told Walsh he, thus far, has not been canceled, “try as some might.”
“So my team is all with me. I still have very good relationships with lots of people in the industry. I’ve lost some friends,” Levi said. “There are people that all of a sudden stop following me on social media and don’t return my calls and stuff, and it’s a bummer, but I still love them.”
“I still have plenty of other jobs in film and television and some podcast stuff that’s coming up and building the studio, and I got my baby on the way,” he added. “And, you know, I’m busy and blessed and grateful not just that I followed the conviction that God put on my heart, but that it wasn’t ultimately in vain. And we actually did it.”
The conversation then turned to original storytelling in Hollywood, and Walsh asked Levi if it was dead with all the sequels and remakes or if it still had a chance.
“Man, I hope so,” Levi said. “I mean, if I have anything to do with that, absolutely. I mean, it’s one of the reasons why I felt very strongly 25 years ago when I started working in the industry, and I just saw how broken it all was. I mean, even then there was the beginnings of this trend of let’s just go reboot this long, old series into a movie.”
The “Shazam!” star said he thinks Hollywood executives are pressured not only by whether the movie will make a lot of money, but also by what he called an “insane” sociopolitical agenda.
“I think a lot of people want to say that Hollywood is the one pushing a lot of the agenda that they don’t like, whatever that agenda is,” Levi said. “Certainly Hollywood is massively complicit in it, but I don’t know that these agendas even necessarily start in Hollywood.”
“Some of them might, but some of them are thinking, ‘What’s the hip, cool thing to do? What are we going to do so that people like us and we don’t get canceled?’” he added. “So I think because of that, it’s — you’re drawing in an executive class that’s going to serve those two masters. It’s money and agenda appearance, whatever that is.”
Levi also reflected on all the great things coming in his life, including his new film “The Unbreakable Boy,” which he said tackles autism “authentically and beautifully.”
“‘The Unbreakable Boy’ comes out February 21st,” Levi said about the true story. “Man, I’m proud of everything I’ve done on some level, very grateful for everything I’ve gotten to do. But I’m particularly proud of this film. It is a very grounded slice-of-life film. No superheroes, no big bang and anything like that.”
On Friday, Patricia Heaton dropped some surprising news that she will also be appearing in Levi’s upcoming movie.
“Hey Valentine’s Day friends! A little announcement…” Heaton captioned her video post on X about her involvement in the project.
Walsh and Levi also talked about the introduction of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into Hollywood, the studio the actor’s building in Texas, and more. The entire interview can be viewed here.
