'Die Hard' star Robert Davi says Hollywood bosses have offered him 'everything' to renounce his support for Trump
'Die Hard' star Robert Davi has spoken out to allegedly expose Hollywood power players who offered him "everything" if he agreed to renounce his support for President Donald Trump. During an appearance on Laura Ingraham's Fox News show "The Ingraham Angle" on Wednesday night, the Hollywood star revealed details surrounding the offer, CNS News reports.
“I’ve been offered, by other people in the industry, at certain points, to denounce Trump, and they said, ‘What do you want?’” Davi said. “They said, ‘What do you want? You’d be on every talk show, everything. You want to do stuff?’”
Furthermore, Davi claimed his support for Trump has cost him several job opportunities in Hollywood. “It’s happened so many times, people have told me: ‘The director wanted to use you, but he knows he can’t.’ That happens to several,” Davi explained. “I’m not complaining about it. It’s just something that I wish the elder of Hollywood, like Norman Lear and Clint Eastwood – opposing points of view – would call a meeting and say, ‘You know, what we shouldn’t be doing this in Hollywood.’”
“It is never going to happen. Never going to happen,” Ingraham replied. “They are the most intolerant people when it comes to ideology. They are not for diversity – they’re for their type of diversity. Other people are horrible, awful, rotten people. And, they just don’t want to work with you. I’m sorry, but I have heard this time and again. People have to go and lie about what they believe in order to feed their family. They are lying and hiding themselves.”
According to Davi, “95 percent” of Hollywood’s technical professionals support the president. However, they fear they might lose their jobs if they openly voice their political views. “The below-the-line people – the key grips, the sound guys, the lighting guys, the gaffers, the makeup artists — a lot of them, 95 percent are for Trump,” he said. “So, when they go in front of the cameras, they’re frightened. They come to me and say, ‘Man, thank you for speaking up for us. Thank you for being one of the few that speak up.’”
Aside from blockbuster movies like 'Die Hard' and 'License to Kill', Davi has appeared in several hit television programs, including “Profiler” (82 episodes), “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” and “Criminal Minds.”