Hollywood Reeling After Kamala’s Loss: ‘Biggest Stars in the World’ Losing Relevance, Industry Won’t

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Hollywood Reeling After Kamala’s Loss: ‘Biggest Stars in the World’ Losing Relevance, Industry Won’t Repeat Trump Resistance Playbook

David Ng 25 Jan 2025

A prominent Hollywood talent manager believes that Kamala Harris’ loss to President Donald Trump in November shows that Hollywood no longer drives the culture as it once did since the plethora of celebrities who endorsed Harris failed to alter the outcome of the election.

“Hollywood doesn’t matter as much as it thinks it matters,” the unnamed talent manager with A-list clients told Vulture. “You had the biggest stars in the world support Kamala Harris. She couldn’t have drawn more powerful advocates. And it didn’t move the needle. What does that tell you? It’s unsettling because the people and things you hold in high esteem don’t drive the culture. As much as I love movies, they aren’t the driver anymore.”

As Breitbart News reported, dozens of A-listers endorsed Kamala Harris, with an unprecedented blitz of endorsements coming in the final days of the campaign. Among the stars to publicly back Harris were Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, George Clooney, Oprah Winfrey, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Stiller, Harrison Ford, Jennifer Lopez, and Julia Roberts.

The Vulture article provided a Hollywood snapshot for the second Trump administration, with sources telling the outlet to expect more media merger activity, less woke-ism, and a concerted effort to not alienate half the country with political sermonizing.

“The movement away from ‘woke’ was already in motion even before Trump got re-elected,” a major movie producer told the outlet.

“We’ve been seeing the departure of executives at the studios that had been hired to promote DEI in film and TV. Hollywood had swung too far left over the past few years and there was bound to be a reckoning.”

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[Smokin Joe]

There was a time when Hollywood Stars had a following. They did things like join the Air Corps, back when their on screen persona were somehow credibly linked to their real-life persona, even if only in fantasy, but often with some degree of actual overlap. Paul Newman drove race cars, Steve Mc Queen Jumped that motorcycle, and the guys in the westerns could ride...
Because they were credible in the roles they played, that bled over into their influence in real life.

Now Hollywood is rife with franchises full of green-screen fantasies about some 100 lb woman thrashing a room full of armed guys with 17+-inch necks, or taking down a dozen zombies with a stick...about as much reality as Buggs Bunny. Entertaining in a junk-food-for-the-brain sort of way, but generally devoid of deeper meaning or life-altering moral lessons, or unfortunately so saturated with the current 'message' from the amoral relativists as to bee unwatchable. so...>yawn<

And that disconnect plays over into the real world, giving them just as much credibility and power in real life as the roles they only play.

[mountaineer]

“Hollywood doesn’t matter as much as it thinks it matters,” the unnamed talent manager with A-list clients told Vulture.

You could show me photos of every single actor/actress nominated for this year's Academy Awards, and I probably couldn't identify more than one or two. Nothing H'wood does matters to me. Nothing H'wood actors say or do matters to me. We all have more important things to deal with.

[GtHawk]

There was a time when Hollywood Stars had a following. They did things like join the Air Corps, back when their on screen persona were somehow credibly linked to their real-life persona, even if only in fantasy, but often with some degree of actual overlap. Paul Newman drove race cars, Steve Mc Queen Jumped that motorcycle, and the guys in the westerns could ride...
Because they were credible in the roles they played, that bled over into their influence in real life.

Now Hollywood is rife with franchises full of green-screen fantasies about some 100 lb woman thrashing a room full of armed guys with 17+-inch necks, or taking down a dozen zombies with a stick...about as much reality as Buggs Bunny. Entertaining in a junk-food-for-the-brain sort of way, but generally devoid of deeper meaning or life-altering moral lessons, or unfortunately so saturated with the current 'message' from the amoral relativists as to bee unwatchable. so...>yawn<

And that disconnect plays over into the real world, giving them just as much credibility and power in real life as the roles they only play.

Not to pick nots but McQueen raced cars too, as a matter he often raced under the Name Harvey Mushman.


But to your point, there was a time, under the old Hollywood contract days that Stars kept their politics to themselves because the studios didn’t want to alienate the paying public. Now neither the studios or the ‘stars’, can’t remember how long it’s been since I considered someone a star, give a crap how many people they alienate and it shows in their crap movies and out right condescension of a latge percentage of formerly movie going public.