\u201cAmerican Thought Leaders\u201d<\/a>\u00a0podcast.<\/p>\n\u201cThe act of telling the truth in an age of authoritarianism, in an age of lies, is a courageous act,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd I\u2019m not saying that I\u2019m courageous. When I think of real courage, I think of\u2026 in any major city, the cemeteries of people who gave their, what Lincoln describes, the last full measure of their devotion for this great land.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rob Schneider said Hollywood is \u201cdismantling itself,\u201d and part of the problem is the \u201cblacklisting\u201d of conservative celebrities. FOX News<\/p>\n
He added, \u201cThat is a sacrifice. I mean, the fact that I\u2019ll never make \u2018Deuce Bigalow\u2019 4, 5 and 6, I think is fine.\u201d<\/p>\n
Schneider laughed at the comparison of the two, but he did admit that the impact his views have had on his career is \u201ca bummer.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShow business, wrong or right, they don\u2019t want any controversy,\u201d he said. \u201cYou know, they don\u2019t want you being mouthy or anything, and that makes sense, but I do think that at a certain point, if we\u2019re going to have a society and if we\u2019re going to continue to have a free society, it\u2019s going to require people to step up and be courageous.\u201d<\/p>\n
Schneider speaks during a Turning Point USA event at the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) on Nov. 10, 2025 in Berkeley, California. Getty Images<\/p>\n
He said the First Amendment does allow for this kind of courage, but acknowledged that freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences \u2013 \u201cyou can ask Jimmy Kimmel,\u201d he quipped, referencing\u00a0Kimmel\u2019s brief suspension\u00a0in September 2025 after his comments on the assassination of Charlie Kirk.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s going to cost you,\u201d Schneider admitted.<\/p>\n
He gave\u00a0Charlton Heston\u00a0as an example: a legendary actor and an early supporter of the civil rights movement who was later \u201crejected by the liberal intelligentsia because he just happened to be a conservative.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ronald Bronstein, Adam Sandler, Josh Safdie, and Rob Schneider attend the Adam Sandler: Love You Netflix NY Special Screening at The Paris Theatre on Aug. 20, 2024 in New York City. Getty Images for Netflix<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that\u2019s shameful,\u201d he admitted. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think that\u2019s a rot in the soul of Hollywood. And I think today\u2019s blacklisting of conservatives is the same thing. I think, at its core, it is adding to its destruction. And I think we are seeing Hollywood completely dismantle itself.\u201d<\/p>\n
Schneider believes that in five years, many major film studios in\u00a0Los Angeles\u00a0\u201cwill just be real estate,\u201d and instead of leaning on Hollywood movies for entertainment, audiences will increasingly turn to watching videos on social media instead of films.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think you\u2019re going to see \u2013 you\u2019re seeing right now \u2013 a rejection of Hollywood\u2026 you\u2019re seeing an implosion of it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rob Schneider\u00a0is speaking out against what he calls the \u201crot in the soul of Hollywood.\u201d The actor says…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[1508,236,88,1506,151607,189054],"class_list":{"0":"post-389184","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-actors","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-hollywood","12":"tag-rob-schneider","13":"tag-the-blacklist"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}