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Hello there. Tell us what you why you're convinced
that it's your political beliefs that have gotten
you blackballed from Hollywood. I mean, I don't really
I don't think I was so much in Hollywood to begin
with to have been blackballed. I know that's kind of the story
that everybody has been saying about me. You know,
I've been on some big TV shows. But I definitely had
to turn down jobs and I got dropped by my agency,
you know, all that sort of stuff. I wasn't on a show
when the mandates came around, so I didn't have to deal
with that sort of opposition. I sort of just took myself out of the industry knowining tt
I couldn't get on board with the, you know, the high sales of things that were
not for the people in my mind. What was the problem for you? Just the people
you'd have to hang out with and you'd have to work
for, etc., if you sort of pulled yourself
out of it. Oh, I don't know. No, no, no. I just knew that I couldn't I couldn't do anything
because I wasn't vaccinated. So and I lost everything. I lost my home. I got it back. I figure things out. But, you know, I sort of went
through a death and a rebirth. I think. And my political views
are not any different than they always have been. So I think what's changed
is society and I don't know that Hollywood has really changed,
but it's captured. I feel
I feel like there's a lot of and I also you know, I see a lot of these like really big celebrities
endorsing things that I wonder if they really are aware
of what they're endorsing. And if they are, I would say I don't understand why they would want to hurt
so many people further than what's already been done
and what's anticipated with the way
things are going right now. So those things made me question
a lot of stuff. So me being a part of Hollywood,
like I don't I don't I don't think I was ever a part of it and I don't think
I'm a part of it still. So. Well,
it's a tough business, right? Whether you call it Hollywood,
you call. It acting, you call it
being on shows wherever it is. Right. It's a tough business. It tends to discriminate against
a lot of women as they age. Do you think that. That's part of it
or do you think it's really more the. The the realities of of your
positions on certain issues? Oh, I see. I see why we're here. Okay. Well, of course we're not. There's discrimination against
women as they age and I mean. No, it's fine. It's
fine. It's not a dumb question. I mean. Jobs. No, not at all. Not at all. I just don't get into the whole
female thing in Hollywood. A lot of people do. And they
you know, a lot of women sort of get up in arms about the equality
between men and women. I don't really ride that horse
so often. You know,
I feel like a lot of women do get great jobs
and a lot of women do get to be in Hollywood
is I mean, yeah, there's an aging stigma,
of course, but I was never one of these actors
that I'm not a career actor. I'm not like someone who wanted to be in the industry
all the time. I just want to work and feed
my kids and go from job to job. I never wanted a career in
in the life of it, so for me it didn't
really make a difference. The only thing that made
a difference was the finances. Like I needed to be able to pay
for my kids to eat and whatnot. And I couldn't
because my jobs weren't. Sopranos was the only job to me
that was like a spiritual, Oh my God, this is what I do
when I love it. After that, everything was, you know,
going to work and doing a job. So it wasn't a huge loss for me. It was just the loss
of being able to work. And that went for frontline
workers, that one for doctors. It wasn't for firefighters
that happened to so many people. How could I sit here
and feel bad for myself when heroes were being turned
into zeros? I could care less
about the Hollywood experience. Really? So. So
now in this sort of post-COVID. You know. The post-COVID world to. Some degree, are you trying to get parts
again? Are you actively pursuing roles? Um, I mean,
my agent dropped me at the time. No email, No, no text,
you know, things like that. When you see that
within the industry, But other people came out
of the woodwork when I kind of took a stand against it, and I really begged them
to leave me alone. I said, I don't really
want to do this right now. I don't really feel like acting
at the moment. I am so deep in the reality
of what's happening that I don't really feel like it's the right thing to do
is to escape it at the moment. So I just want to be myself
for a little while. I'm comfortable with that. So I mean, if something great comes along,
it's a really fantastic part and they'll allow me to play
in their sandbox againithout knowing that I wasn't compliant,
then sure, I'll, you know, I would come back out,
but if there's a place for me, but I'm not going to break down
door is to be an actor more. I'm a mom more than anything.
I'm a mom.