Epoch Times - Nick Searcy: Here’s How Trump’s Special Ambassadors to Hollywood Could Shake Up the Industry
Aired: 2025-08-22
Duration: 01:45


=== Conservatives in Hollywood (01:45) ===

[00:00:00]  It's a funny thing about the conservative side of filmmaking, the conservative side of Hollywood.
[00:00:07]  What happens is you get people like John Voigt, Sylvester Sallone, Mel Gibson, who have such big stars that doesn't matter, right?
[00:00:17]  Their conservatism is not going to affect them.
[00:00:20]  Maybe it'll affect them with certain people, but they're never going to be hurting for work.
[00:00:25]  They've kind of made it.
[00:00:26]  There's not a big movement on the conservative side to help out conservatives that are lower down on the ladder.
[00:00:35]  What could they do?
[00:00:37]  Well, people with that kind of power, I mean, with that kind of star power, they could form a studio.
[00:00:43]  They, you know, that's been done in the past, you know, United Artists, you know, that kind of thing.
[00:00:50]  They could have enough money and power that they could pull together a studio because that's what's needed.
[00:00:58]  You know, that's why Netflix and Amazon is able to churn out so many films.
[00:01:03]  You know, they have pooled their resources so that they're making the kinds of films that support what they believe in.
[00:01:11]  We don't do that.
[00:01:13]  Conservatives are afraid of investing in films because basically it's a bad investment.
[00:01:18]  You know, chances are you're going to lose your money.
[00:01:21]  So what we have to do if we really want to compete is create a system where we have, we're able to make 10 films and maybe one of them makes enough money to float the other nine.
[00:01:32]  That's what they do.
[00:01:34]  So I wish that they would use their star power and their influence to build something like that, but I don't think they will.
[00:01:42]  It's not how the conservative mind works.
[00:01:44]  You know, we're all individuals.