Posted on 05/05/2017 2:25:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Hollywood anti-Trump Resistance members aren’t exactly in short supply right now but Josh Gad is an especially ridiculous one.
When not voicing Star Wars Rebels, Angry Birds or Frozen spinoffs (he’s Olaf), Gad is to be found venting violent spleen about Trump that renders Marvel filmmaker Joss Whedon rather milquetoast by way of comparison.
Take a look at his reaction yesterday on Twitter to House Republicans passing a revamped health care bill that repealed much of Obamacare:
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Gad also retweeted Patton Oswalt equating supporters of the repeal of ‘Obamacare’ with “Cattle cheering McDonald’s”.
Gad- who was caught up in the Beauty and the Beast gay kiss storm- is on the up right now. He will soon be seen as murder suspect Hector McQueen in Kenneth Branagh’s all-star remake of Murder on the Orient Express and is reputedly in line to play Penguin in The Batman.
But his furious ranting at Middle America has some in Hollywood worried about an impending backlash.
A conservative producer who worked with Gad on an independent film tells Heat Street: “Josh isn’t acting in off-Broadway theater any more. He is a rising movie star but he has to realize that while constructive opposition to Trump is still cool in Hollywood, declarations of all-out war will not be viewed favorably from a commercial perspective.
“Many of the mothers who show up to hear his Disney projects are Trump voters. They won’t want to be putting money in the pockets of someone who is out to get them.
“It’s only a matter of time before he goes too far and squanders the goodwill he has been generating the past few years. You didn’t see John Candy in 1983 apocalyptic revenge fantasies about Ronald Reagan.”
Indeed you didn’t.
Too many in Hollywood confuse stardom with agreement...................
You didn’t see John Candy in 1983 apocalyptic revenge fantasies about Ronald Reagan.”
John Candy was a true American Patriot I doubt he would even consider such a thing. I knew him and had been to his home many times. He had a real cute place on Mandeville Cyn in Brentwood. When his Wife Rosemary sold it, they turned it in to 2 big estates, It was a real Big piece of dirt, about 4 acres or so, right on the corner of Sunset, east side.
Josh Gad is an overrated hack actor - not funny nor talented. Olaf is one step below jar jar binks. The ONLY reason he has any popularity at all is due to his appearance in the musical the Mormons.
I should look into who he is so i can reject him...nah, i think i will just reject him straight up.
I once read that he was the star in a film with an actress who was once a superstar (cannot remember who) so he gave her his trailer and took hers because he felt she deserved a nicer one.
It’s indicative of something that I couldn’t pick him out of a two woman line up...
Yeah I believe it, he was that kind of guy, so was Dom Delouise, fun to be around. But then, the vast majority of Old Hollywood were pretty down to earth people. I have known and met just about everyone from Old Hollywood, and well just about anyone who is someone you could think of, someday I might write a book, I get asked a lot, just because of what I do for work. No I won’t say what I do.
We knew Larry Storch and Ralph Waite and I’ve met Norman Lear. Lived in Chino.
you wouldn’t recognize Chino Now, it is actually a town instead of just a prison and dairy farms.
Old Hollywood makes me feel good and proud to be an American. New Hollywood makes me vomit and I do not recognize those other Americans.
Had to go look him up. Ok, he’s the guy in The Wedding Ringer I happened upon a few days ago on tv. Nothing memorable. Nothing close to rising. He brought nothing to the character.
I really like Robin Lord Taylor as Penguin in *Gotham*. This guy, Gad, doesn’t have the right look for the part.
I was in the first class that went from Kindergarten to 6th grade at Walnut Elementary. Population was around 10,000 back then.
Members of Hollywood that actually answered their own Front Door when you rang the bell
Frank Sinatra
Dean Martin, once in a while
Sammy Davis Jr, once in a while, but he always came over to say hi
Fred Astair
Kirk Douglas
Vincent Price
Alfred Hitchcock
Lucille Ball
Paul Newman
Charles Bronson
Mac Davis
John Candy
Dom Delouise
Burt Reynolds
Kenny Rogers
Barbara Mortenson, was Billingsley until she married Dr Bill(mrs cleaver)
Rock Hudson
Carrie Fisher
Cher, not sure what happened to her in her old age??
Max Baer (Jethro)
Liza Minelli
Robert Stack
Liberace
Barry Manilow, occasionally
Shirley Temple
Christian Slater
Tim Allen
Burt Young
Jimmy Stewart
Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Montgomery
Agnes Moorehead
OJ
Johnny Cochran
I could do this for days and days, I have barely scratched the surface of who I have met and worked for.
“Members of Hollywood that actually answered their own Front Door when you rang the bell”
Were you the paperboy?
Who ?
In Hollywood today you don’t have to be talented or funny or smart, just a Hater.
John Candy was Canadian. http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/en/article/john-candy/
That said, at least he had respect for this country to not try to piss off 60% of the American populace.
John Candy, now there’s a guy I miss.
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