Zachary Levi Responds To Whoopi Goldberg & ‘The View’ While Urging “Closeted Conservatives” In Hollywood To Come Out For Trump

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With a week and a half until Election Day, Zachary Levi is having it out with Whoopi Goldberg. After Goldberg said on The View that Levi’s recent statement calling Hollywood a liberal town is “not necessarily true,” the Harold and the Purple Crayon actor responded in a lengthy Instagram Live rant, which also earned him backlash for implying Gavin Creel died from the COVID vaccine. “To Whoopi Goldberg, Sunny Hostin and all the folks at The View… I don’t think it’s accurate to say that somehow Hollywood is both a liberal and a conservative town,” he said in the video. “To Whoopi’s point, back in the day, there might have been a bit more of a balance.

And there have always been more, let’s say conservative leaning stars, that have been able to say those things. But you really have to be at a certain level of your career in order to get away with it, number one.

But number two, that was also back then.” After Goldberg and her co-hosts named Jon Voight and Dennis Quaid as examples of working actors who have openly expressed their conservative views, Levi said, “Of the thousands of actors in Hollywood, that you could only name two, I think actually speaks to that.” He continued, “And what that means is there’s plenty — and by the way, they have sent me lots of messages — plenty of people in my industry in Hollywood that are terrified to publicly say that they would vote for Donald Trump or be conservative in any way.

That’s why you don’t see them. That’s why they’re not very prevalent or prominent because they know that there’s ramifications for this kind of s—.