Emmy Award-winning actress Drea de Matteo believes there are many “quiet” Donald Trump supporters in Hollywood who are afraid to publicly support the Republican candidate or criticize the current administration.
During an interview on “Jesse Watters Primetime” on Monday, De Matteo, who rose to fame on HBO’s “The Sopranos,” described himself as an “outcast” in Hollywood for expressing his skepticism about President Biden.
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“[In the] “The Sopranos … we were critically acclaimed but we were pariahs. I’m still a pariah. Here I am, and they’re trying to take me out into the woods and shoot me because I didn’t support Biden,” she said, referring to the death of Adriana La Cerva, her character in the mafia drama.
When asked if he thought there were “quiet” Trump supporters in Hollywood, De Matteo replied: “I think there are a lot of them.”
Drea De Matteo attended Motor City Comic Con held at the Suburban Collection Showplace. (Photo by Monica Morgan/WireImage via Getty Images)
“There are a lot of Trump supporters out there. [Robert F.] Kennedy supporters…” she added.
The actress said she was “embarrassed” by some Italians for playing politics, and criticized Robert De Niro, who publicly criticized Trump outside a Manhattan courtroom during Trump’s criminal trial in New York.
“I’m Italian. [Dr. Anthony] “Mr. Fauci, we’re talking about De Niro. I’m embarrassed by my own people right now. I don’t understand what we’re doing here,” she told Watters.
She also questioned whether De Niro and others were being paid to endorse Biden after Watters aired footage of a star-studded fundraiser in Los Angeles that raised $30 million for Biden’s campaign.
Robert De Niro spoke to “Today” about why he spoke out against former President Trump during a press conference outside Trump’s trial in New York. (Left: Charly Triballeau / AFP via Getty Images; right: Justin Lane-Pool/Getty Images)
“At this point I’m curious how much these actors were paid to endorse Biden. De Niro went to court for it so I wonder if he was paid for the location,” she said.
De Matteo, who has been a vocal critic of cancel culture, recently said on Donald Trump Jr.’s podcast that he had previously voted for Biden in 2020 based on his sympathy for illegal immigrants, but that the chaos at the border and other factors had caused him to change his mind.
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In a separate interview, she told Varney & Co., “The far-left[s] She thinks people are “tired of Hollywood.”
“Very few people are willing to speak up,” she said in May. “They’re probably going to vote Republican. These are people who would never normally vote, but people are scared. This doesn’t seem like democracy anymore.”
(From left) Actors Michael Imperioli and Drea De Matteo in a scene from the HBO cable television series “The Sopranos.” (Photo by Anthony Neste/Getty Images)
When it comes to President Biden’s leadership, the actress thinks “the president needs to take a break” and that the administration is using social issues and the president as a “pawn.” She told Fox Business host Stuart Varney.
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“They should stop using him as a symbol of their policies,” De Matteo said. “He shouldn’t be here. It’s like putting my mother out. She has dementia. It’s sad and it’s inhumane.”
Fox News’ Kristen Altas contributed to this report.
