Conservative star James Woods recently sat down with Megyn Kelly to discuss how he kept his role in a blockbuster movie silent so his politics didn’t affect its success.
Woods has long contended that being a conservative/Republican in Hollywood is the fastest way to tank your own career, claiming that he has had a number of celebrities approach him privately to agree with his politics, but they would never say it publically. Almost as though proving him right, Woods revealed to “The Megyn Kelly Show” that he was “gently asked” to keep his executive producer role on “Oppenheimer” quiet after a discussion about his social media presence.
(Video Credit: The Megyn Kelly Show)
“When Oppenheimer came out, there was a discussion about my Twitter, and it was gently suggested that I basically remain invisible, which was painful — on the other hand, I’m a pragmatic person and I thought, a lot of people put their effort into this, so I’m just going to be an invisible pariah because the people who are going to be voting for Oscars, which is very important,” Woods said.
“I don’t want to deprive those people. I don’t want to have some nutcase come out of the woodwork, fabricate some ridiculous story about me — I’ve had a million of them said, they’re all lies — I don’t want that to happen and have the clickbait story be, ‘James Woods is the executive producer, we’re not going to watch that movie!’ So I stepped back and basically took one for the team,” he said, adding that he “wasn’t even invited to the Producer’s Guild Award, I’m a producer on the picture, and I was not invited to go to the Producer’s Guild Awards!”
The movie won that award.
Rather than be bitter about being shunned by Hollywood and forced to work in the shadows, Woods is “embracing this second act” in his career and revealed he actually has another “secret project” coming out in October. He also discussed his role in a new Oliver Stone movie that is in the works.
“I’m doing more stuff now,” he said. “I’m involved in the production of Oliver Stone’s new movie. I love Oliver, he’s difficult, we disagree on everything, we fight all the time. And he came to me and said ‘Hey Jimmy, you think you can help with this project like you did with Oppenheimer?’ and I said ‘I think I can.'”
“F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said ‘There are no second acts in American lives’ but my second act is shaping up pretty well, and I give all the credit to someone who is sitting there off camera,” Woods beamed. “My absolutely beloved, brilliant wife, Sara, she’s like this extraordinary photographer.”
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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to write. Marlee also contributes to BizPac Review.
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