{"id":563369,"date":"2026-08-09T02:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T02:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/563369\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T02:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T02:26:12","slug":"keen-ruffalo-says-covid-depression-made-him-become-an-actor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/563369\/","title":{"rendered":"Keen Ruffalo says \u2018Covid depression\u2019 made him become an actor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">Laughing, Keen said: \u201cYeah, he was definitely supportive, but he was like, \u2018You sure you want to do this?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">Mark and his 53-year-old wife, Sunrise Coigney, are also parents to daughters Bella, 21, and 18-year-old Odette.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">In January, the Crime 101 alum said he would not rule out swapping his illustrious acting career for \u201cdoing something good\u201d for millions of Americans as a politician.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">Mark told Us Weekly: \u201cIt isn\u2019t on my game card right now, but who knows. I mean, you never say never.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI mean, I spent a lot of time in that world, and acting \u2013 it\u2019s for the people. So, I love the people, and politicians could be doing something good for the people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">He then lauded New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, 34, who ran as a Democratic Socialist and made history during his swearing-in ceremony on January 1 when he became the first prominent US politician to take the oath on a Quran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cSeeing Mamdani\u2019s win in New York has really excited me about what\u2019s possible in the United States right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">The Mickey 17 cast member \u2013 who has been a fierce critic of 80-year-old US President Donald Trump \u2013 believes the country needs a new political direction that serves working people, as the Democratic and Republican parties have \u201cbecome completely captured by corporations\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">Mark said: \u201cIt\u2019s bulls***. And the people in America are suffering. If the people in America weren\u2019t suffering, we wouldn\u2019t be where we are right now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cYou know, it\u2019s a failure on both parties. They become completely captured by corporations, both parties. And it\u2019s time for a new America that is for the working people who were the plurality of this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"GVVHMTqjHdqyH\" style=\"display:none\">&#8211; BANG Showbiz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Laughing, Keen said: \u201cYeah, he was definitely supportive, but he was like, \u2018You sure you want to do&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3376,74,8831,6726,430,8607,3419,501,165527,156,1438,71,16718,8596,1362,111,139,69,277019,312,16720,31145],"class_list":["post-563369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-actor","tag-after","tag-an","tag-become","tag-celebrities","tag-covid","tag-depression","tag-design","tag-ditched","tag-entertainment","tag-fashion","tag-from","tag-him","tag-keen","tag-made","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-ruffalo","tag-says","tag-studies","tag-suffered"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}