{"id":40119,"date":"2025-07-27T02:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T02:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/40119\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T02:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T02:24:10","slug":"nick-offerman-does-not-want-to-pick-an-argument-with-trump-supporter-co-star-dennis-quaid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/40119\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Offerman does not want to ‘pick an argument’ with Trump-supporter co-star Dennis Quaid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Actor Nick Offerman said<\/a> last week he wasn\u2019t looking to have a political squabble with his \u201cSovereign\u201d co-star Dennis Quaid over President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cDennis Quaid is a fantastic actor whom I\u2019ve looked up to my whole life, and he [is] better in this film than almost anything I\u2019ve seen him in,\u201d Offerman said in a response on Reddit to a commenter asking about how he deals with Trump supporters like Quaid.<\/p>\n

Offerman had made an \u201cask me anything\u201d post on the site inviting users to inquire about \u201cSovereign,\u201d his new film with Quaid about an anti-government extremist and his son, and an eventual police standoff.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t have a lot of time together on set, so the context wasn\u2019t really conducive to digging into settling the world\u2019s problems, or even just those of America. \u2018Good morning, Dennis. How about those Epstein files? Anyway, want to run our lines,\u2019\u201d Offerman added.<\/p>\n

The actor, famous for his role as Ron Swanson on \u201cParks & Recreation,\u201d said he believes those who voted for the 47th president are good people, even though he disagrees with them.<\/p>\n

Nick Offerman at the Tribeca Film Festival on June 8, 2025. Andrew H. Walker\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

Dennis Quaid attends the photocall at the 71st Taormina Film Festival on June 13, 2025 in Taormina, Italy. Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cDealing with Trump supporters in the world is something I try to handle with nuance, because I know many others around the states who are very good people and citizens and would give you the shirt of their back,\u201d Offerman said. \u201cThey are on the receiving end of an absolute firehose of misinformation, so it\u2019s really cognitively dissonant (impossible) to engage in rational discourse.\u201d<\/p>\n

He has said that his libertarian \u201cParks and Recreation\u201d character<\/a> would have \u201cdespised Trump,\u201d and he thinks Republicans trend toward fascism.<\/p>\n

Dennis Quaid spoke at one of Trump\u2019s rallies in California ahead of the 2024 election.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019re all wrong about a lot of things, but the reason I lean left is because at the end of the Republican plan is austerity and literal fascism, sad military muscle parades and mounted troops in the LA, the coolest city in the world, and all the rest of the current bed-s\u2014tings, and at the end of the Democrat plan is health care and life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for everybody,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Sovereign movie starring Nick Offerman and Dennis Quaid. Briarcliff Entertainment<\/p>\n

Offerman added that he wanted to work with Quaid and leave politics out.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo matter who we voted for, it requires all of us (including an overwhelming number of immigrants) to make the great bounty this country produces, and is then so disproportionately pocketed by the ultra-wealthy, so I am not going to pick an argument with Dennis Quaid over our political leanings because I\u2019m going to shake his hand and try to make a great film,\u201d Offerman said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actor Nick Offerman said last week he wasn\u2019t looking to have a political squabble with his \u201cSovereign\u201d co-star…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[1508,236,31775,24336,88,10815,3713],"class_list":["post-40119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-celebrities","tag-conservatives","tag-dennis-quaid","tag-entertainment","tag-media","tag-nick-offerman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40119","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=40119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}