Emmy Award-winning actress Drea de Matteo believes there are many “quiet” Donald Trump voters in Hollywood who are afraid to publicly support the Republican candidate or criticize the current administration.
DeMattei, who rose to fame on HBO’s “The Sopranos,” told “Jesse Waters Primetime” in an interview Monday that he was “outcast” by Hollywood for expressing doubts about President Joe Biden.
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“[In the] The Sopranos…even though we were critically acclaimed, we were the outcasts. I am still an outcast. Here I am and they’re going to take me to the woods and shoot me because I don’t support Biden,” she said, referring to the death of her character Adriana La Selva on the gangster show.
Asked if she thought there were “quiet” Trump voters in Hollywood, DeMatteo said, “I think there are a lot of them.”
Drea de Matteo attends Motor City Comic Con at the Suburban Collection Showplace. (Photo: Monica Morgan/WireImage via Getty Images)
“There are a lot of Trump supporters, there are a lot of [Robert F.] Kennedy supporters…” she added.
The actress said she was “ashamed” of the political behavior of some fellow Italians, pointing to Robert De Niro’s public burning of Trump outside a Manhattan courthouse during his criminal trial in New York.
“This is Italian, man. We’re talking [Dr. Anthony] Fauci, we’re talking about De Niro. I am ashamed of my people now. I don’t understand what we’re doing here,” she told Waters.
She also questioned whether De Niro and others were paid to support President Biden after Waters played a video of a star-studded Los Angeles fundraiser that raised $30 million.
Robert De Niro tells TODAY why he spoke out against former President Trump at a press conference outside Trump’s New York trial. (Charly Triballeau/AFP/Getty Images, left, Justin Lane-Pool/Getty Images, right.)
“I wonder how much money these actors are getting for endorsing Biden at this point. I’m curious. I want to know if De Niro is getting paid on location for going to court to do that,” she said.
DeMatteo has been an outspoken critic of cancel culture, recently saying on Donald Trump Jr.’s podcast that while she previously voted for Biden in 2020 out of sympathy for illegal immigrants, issues such as chaos at the border Already making her vote for Biden in 2020.
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she told Varney. In another interview, although it is known that “the far left themselves[s] Hollywood,” she believes people are “tired of it.”
“There are very few people who are willing to speak out,” she said in May. “They might vote Republican, and those people wouldn’t normally vote, but people are scared. It doesn’t feel like a democracy anymore.”
(Left) Actors Michael Imperioli and Drea De Matteo on a scene from the HBO cable series “The Sopranos.” (Photo by Anthony Nestor/Getty Images)
As for President Biden’s leadership, the actress believes “the guy needs a break,” telling Fox Business host Stuart Varney that the administration has been using social issues and the president as a “pawn.”
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“They need to stop using him as the poster boy for their agenda,” DeMatteo said. “He’s not here. It’s like putting my mother there. She has dementia. It’s sad, it’s inhumane.”
Fox News’ Kristen Altes contributed to this report.
