Dennis Quaid Shares Reaction and Censorship on New Ronald Reagan Movie: 'It's Not Right'

Pro-Trump actor Dennis Quaid revealed this week that the left tried to “cancel” him to star in the upcoming “Reagan” movie.

Quaid, year Trump fanaticoffered the admission while speaking with popular podcaster Joe Rogan about how Hollywood is warning conservatives to keep quiet lest they get upset.

“One ideology rules, especially in Hollywood,” Rogan said.

He went on to describe some of the censorship he witnessed during the height of his acting career in the 1990s.

“One of the things that I say drove me crazy about Hollywood was that there are people who had different opinions about things, but they never spoke up because it could damage their career, and it really can,” he said. “They will blackball you.”

(Video Credit: The Joe Rogan Experience)

Quaid agreed.

“They will,” he said. “There were a couple of attempts to write me off while we were doing “Reagan.” A bit half-assed, I guess. But it's turned into this, and it's not good.”

For example, he said, when he filmed a COVID PSA with Dr. Anthony Fauci in 2020, he was accused of essentially endorsing then-President Donald Trump.

“The cancellation culture media is using that I was doing a campaign ad and an endorsement of Donald Trump, and that I was paid handsomely for it with diverted CDC funds,” Quaid complained, calling the accusations

During the discussion, Rogan and Quaid also took on big tech, with the “Reagan” star revealing that Facebook has been censoring his attempts to promote the film on the grounds that the content of the ads “is an attempt to influence an election”.

This prompted Rogan to ask, “Do you think if you made a positive Obama movie, it would be 'swaying an election?'”

To which Quaid responded by pointing out that an Obama movie was made in 2020, and that no one had complained about it at the time.

“Just the act of banning or censoring this material, as you were talking about, is an attempt to influence an election,” the actor argued.

UNREAL: Facebook is censoring the promotion of the new film 'Reagan' by restricting access to the “boost post” feature.

First, they censured Trump, and now they censure Reagan. Want to explain Facebook? pic.twitter.com/4Ds4QFwHGZ

— TikTok Libs (@libsofttalk) August 15, 2024

That said, Quaid admitted that after he and the production team behind “Reagan” sent a letter to Facebook complaining about the censorship, FB reversed course, saying it had made a “mistake.”

“Facebook has since said they made a mistake,” the actor said. “They said that yesterday because we published a letter about it in an article in Newsweek. And they said they got it wrong. It was: their automatic systems had picked it up.

Rogan didn't seem convinced.

“Oh, how convenient,” he said, adding that far-left Facebook employees may have been behind the “bug.”

In a statement to NewsweekFacebook said: “While there are no restrictions on this page that prevent admins from posting, we identified a handful of ads from this account that were incorrectly disapproved. This happened because our automated systems mistakenly determined that content about President Reagan required prior authorization under our policies for ads about social issues, elections, or politics. That was a mistake, and the ad restriction has been lifted.”

Sure…

Reagan's film is about the fight against communism. Why would Facebook censor the promotion of this movie? Dennis Quaid, who plays Reagan, told Rogan. pic.twitter.com/M6ebWLkuGV

— Chad Prather (@WatchChad) August 16, 2024

Quaid also discussed the FB “mistake” while speaking with Fox News' Trace Gallagher on Wednesday.

“[This] It happened several times actually,” he told the Fox News host. “I'm baffled to tell you the truth, because it was banned and they haven't even seen the movie. So it looks like they don't want us to either other people see the movie, I guess. But you know, we'll set up a screening for them anytime and they can see it for themselves.”

Quaid last made headlines when he praised former President Donald Trump for holding a campaign rally in the South Bronx in May.

Appearing on Fox News' “Jesse Watters Primetime” after the rally, he expressed admiration and respect.

“I really admire Trump for going to the neighborhoods,” he said. “You know, people relate to that. They really do. If anything, all these events that have been conspiring against him have made him more human to people.”

“Donald Trump has been talking about cleaning house, which, you know, is kind of cleaning to start over. That doesn't mean being a dictator. It just means that we started doing what the people of North- American has asked us,” he added.

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